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82-Year-Old Coder Trumps BT's Hyperlink Patent
grendelkhan writes: "According to Wired News, 82 year-old programmer, Bob Bemer, claims his creation of escape invalidates British Telecomm's hyperlink patent. He has no intentions on cashing in, he just wants BT to quit suing people and prove, in his own words: 'All this new patent stuff is crazy and counterproductive.'"
That'll show big business what the old-timers can do! I reckon as punishment, BT should have to listen to one of his stories about either his long walks to school, duking german bullets and hiding from japanese commandos, or about the time he took a walk in the park, then went on the ferry and found a dime, that dime looked......
The Pain will be never ending... Death to Stupid Lawsuits!!!!
...and license it to everyone in the world for nothing, except BT which would have to pay $1 billion.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Next thing you know, he'll be making other outragous claims, such as he invented the question mark and will accuse chestnuts of laziness.
What OS?
The ITS at MIT. (lameness filter cram cram stuff adding more words so taco won't get pissed at me and ruin his engagement high)
How was it interpreted?
It crashed the system. (crash crash boom click whirrrrr...)
Where did you type it?
On the command line, where else? (lameness filter cram stuff wodge spank spank WHUMP!) (byt the way, the lameness filter really bites.
Reboot macht Frei.