{"id":3007,"date":"2002-08-23T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2002-08-23T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T12:02:35","slug":"occasional_just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/occasional_just.html","title":{"rendered":"Occasional justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

BT <\/a>has lost its screwball suit against Prodigy in which BT <\/a>claimed that it owned a patent on hyperlinks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Screw you, BT<\/a>. Hope the legal fees put a serious dent in your earnings reports.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, here’s hoping that the folks suing Fax.com and its customers for $2.2 trillion <\/a>at least provoke a bit of pants-wetting from the spam fax industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BT has lost its screwball suit against Prodigy in which BT claimed that it owned a patent on hyperlinks. Screw you, BT. 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