[LINK] Gittins on software patents

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Wierdness. I, too, use Mozilla - both Firebird and Thunderbird (browser 
and e-mail).

If I use the link (ie copy-and-paste), the story opens directly (no 
registration diversion). If I click from the e-mail link, I get the 
diversion to the story (as Roger observed). Opening from the e-mailed 
link, the browser's location bar is also different:
file:///C:/DOCUME~1/TRUDI/LOCALS~1/TEMP/splash.do-1.html

I think there's a slip in how Mozilla opens links. It never mattered to 
me, because I never open the link "from" the e-mail...

Richard

Roger Clarke wrote:

> rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au:
>
>> This week's missive on the relationship between patents and software 
>> ... Gittins is quoting a software engineer who has asked not to be 
>> named.
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/30/1091080437270.html
>
>
> Intriguingly, the article displays in and prints from Safari 1.2.2.
>
> But in Mac Mozilla 1.5 it's diverted to a 'you need to register soon' 
> page, and the link to 'Register later and continue to your Article' 
> doesn't work.
>