[rescue] worth it for the disks?

[Katherine Strojny]

dave at cca.org wrote:
> I was working at a factory, casually walking through a department
> I had nothing to do with, saw something someone was working on, casually
> suggested a solution, and was told: "Can't, that's patented.".
>
> Wasn't there something about "non trivial" in patent requirements
> once? What happened?

I just read an article that said British Telecom is suing Prodigy and 16
other Internet companies, based on BT's almost-forgotten patent on a concept
equivalent to the hyperlink.

Not that hyperlinks are trivial.

-k