[LINK] The World has really gone mad, hasn't it?

[richard@auscoms.com.au]

Sorry Michael -- the Brit patent was first _filed_ in 1976. Tim B-L did his CERN
work four years later:
>A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six month stint
(Jun-Dec 
>1980)as consultant software engineer at CERN, the European Particle Physics
Laboratory in 
>Geneva, Switzerland. Whilst there, he wrote for his own private use his first
program for storing 
>information including using random associations. Named "Enquire", and never
published, this 
>program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World
Wide Web.

>From his own biography at:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html 

Mind you, I'm tired both of the dumb patents and the laws that permit them...

Richard Chirgwin
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Subject:    [LINK] The World has really gone mad, hasn't it?
Author: "Michael Lean" <m.lean@qut.edu.au>
Date:       21/06/00 11:34

 From Wired News...

British Telecom: We Own Linking
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37095,00.html?tw=wn20000620
They patented the system of hyperlinking more than 10 years ago,
British Telecom officials say, and now they want their royalties. Looks
like a patent battle for the digital ages. By Craig Bicknell.

...and what happened to our Tim, at CERN? Doen't he get a look in here 
somewhere?

Mike