... about their legal action in the US. The context of their reply is my mail in which I asked for a reduction on an average use of hyper links of 25 clicks p/day. Not more as I was expecting to be eligible for back payments in case they would win their case.
Their reply is nothing more and nothing less than I expected although I had a secret wish they would tell me something I didn't know. In all I have an impression it is again a bunch of sharks trying to make a good impression on their employer and make him believe the money he is paying them is not lost. Anyway, back to Linux... Cheers, Zoran. -- If you find me, please return me to my $HOME: my address is 'cd'. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Kana 6.0 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:35:14 +0000 Subject: Re: Can I apply for a reduction? (KMM2596096V9088L0KM) Dear Mr Grbic, Thank you for your email regarding BT and the legal action being taken on Hyperlink technology. You may find the following information useful. BT owns a US patent (no.4,873,662) relating to the principles behind hyperlinks, a concept widely used in the Internet and similar environments, including some corporate intranets. In the 1970s we did pioneering research & development work on the convergence of telecommunications and computing. This gave rise to a BT invention which is now used in Internet hyperlinks. We are taking legal action against Prodigy, and have approached other American Internet Service Providers to discuss a reasonable royalty based on the revenues that others enjoy by benefiting from our intellectual property. We have approached ISPs as it would clearly be impractical to agree a license with every user of the Internet in the USA, and individual users of ISPs can effectively be covered by their ISPs taking licenses. It would make no sense to pursue every individual who uses the Internet. We can confirm that only the US is affected, as that is the only territory in which the patent applies. There is no effect in Europe or elsewhere. This is a straightforward business matter and intellectual property issues are commonplace in high tech industries. Thank you for taking the time to contact BT on this matter. Yours sincerely, Chrissie Kemp eCustomer Service Ref; 1165176 BT now have a new and exciting self-help service, please click below to try the BT Search Engine; http://www.bt.com/askbt/index.jsp Additionally you can now tell us how we are doing by clicking the online survey below; www.viewscast.com/btemailsurvey _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
