US company holds patent on website navigation!?

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:16 am

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2128997,00.html

Okay, if everyone has already seen this, I'm sorry, just trash the topic.

I saw it just recently and it's quite... creepy.

0newinged · Post by **0newinged** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 1:53 am

lol jeez what a bunch of BS

well some people will do anything for fatter pockets

THharborpunk55 · Post by **THharborpunk55** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 3:22 am

thats funny, just sounds like some kinda scam aimed at getting money and publicity for a failing company.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:08 am

hahaha

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:23 am

But it's right in saying 'Why are they going after smaller companies, not larger one's like Amazon, Microsoft etc'.

Thinking about it M$ would destroy them if they ever came enar them, they would bury them so deep in legal issue's they're comapny wouldn't no longer exist.

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 6:33 pm

It's true... the Microsoft legal team is a very deadly thing.

farrell2k · Post by **farrell2k** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:12 pm

reminds me of rambus trying to claim rights over all memory access or some shit like that.

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:30 pm

Or Apple claiming rights to graphical user interfaces.

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:08 pm

Talk to ya's later...im off to patent the idea of the wheel

Tank-X · Post by **Tank-X** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 2:08 am

That is pathetic, though not as pathetic as the company that tried to claim the rights to hyperlinks themselves (which I read about after the one in the post above).

DJ Samba D · Post by **DJ Samba D** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 10:49 am

The company that tried to claim rights to hyperlinks themselves was in fact BT (British Telecom) whose monopoly on the telecommunications market here in the UK was failing... I thought it was really pathetic to be honest.

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:34 am

This seems to be the latest business model after the bubble burst...

Get in on the market quick, allow your technology to be free while the going is good, and when the bubble bursts, charge money for what was considered to be a "standard." (I.E. the MP3 format)