Posted by James Hutton on 03/30/07 10:59

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Grant Robertson wrote:
>
>> Was that ever patented?
>
> No, why would it have been? The whole point of the Web is that it should
> be free and open. Patenting HTML would be contrary to the spirit of it.
>
I seem to recall, but it is very hazy, that British Telecom tried at one
point to patent the hyperlink. Can anyone shed any light on this?

[Back to original message]