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SBC Getting Aggressive With Frames Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-fear-on dept.

mpthompson writes "Aspects of the SBC patent shakedown were covered previously on SlashDot, but the following article has more details including the royalty fee schedules on the two patents that SBC is seeking to enforce against web sites that utilize frames in their design. In short, SBC has asserted that it is the exclusive owner of a technology for "structured document" browsing - the use of frames to provide hyperlinks to documents displayed by a browser. Apparently the strategy by SBC is to set precedent against small web sites that will presumably capitulate before going after the big guys. Based on the fee schedule, SBC seems to be pretty serious about this whole patent thing and may not go away so easily."

3 of 432 comments (clear)

  1. Afirmative frames by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I suggest that payment for use of frames be based on the race of the user:
    1. Asians and White people pay full fee.
    2. Mexicans and mixed breed pay half fee.
    3. Dolphins, chimps, gorillas, and zoo animals pay one quarter fee.
    4. Negroes and Moose Limbs pay no fee.
  2. Re:so use tables. by ncc74656 · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Tables nearly always work better than frames.

    CSS works even better, as long as you use a browser with a decent CSS implementation. (A browser that doesn't grok CSS can still do an acceptable job with the site if the underlying HTML is clean enough...that's why separating content from layout is a Good Thing.)

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    20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
  3. Question. by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am running a server at my home on a cable modem (NOT $BC) and I use frames.

    $BC decides to get nasty with me and send me evil letters threatening to sue me if I don't pay them $$$ or take my frames down.

    I wipe my ass with the letter and send it back to them with a nice, brown, smelly, stain on it and inform them that they can go take a flying fsck at a rolling doughnut on a gravel road.

    They continue to send me nasty-grams and I continue to return them, ass-wiped.

    What do they think they can do to me? Send some sort of "enforcers" to take my server? I think not. I'll shoot them if they try it. Can you spell "heavily armed" ????

    How do they propose to enforce this when they are met with armed resistence?? And I ain't talking sling shots and BB guns.....

    $BC $UCKS..
    Try and stop me... I'll do as I please...