Can British Telecom own the patent (4,873,662) on hyperlinks? Can HTML code be copyrighed?
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Here is the famous Mambo code comparision, borrowed from Newsforge.com. Sorry, Jem, I hope you don’t mind…
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| <td valign=”top” colspan=”2″ class=”createdate”> Saturday, 12 June 2004 |
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| If you’ve read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you’ll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean <i>really</i>, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often <i>unaffordably</i> expensive. <br /><br /> <img xsrc=”http:// mambo.mamboforge.net/ demo/images/stories/ asterisk.png” width=”70″ height=”67″ align=”left” hspace=”6″ alt=”Another logo” title=”Another logo” border=”0″ /> Mambo is set to change all that… Mambo is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it’s not complicated. Mambo has been developed for the masses. It’s licensed under the GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and reliable. Mambo doesn’t even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it’s up and running. |
If you’ve read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you’ll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean <i>really</i>, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often <i>unaffordably</i> expensive. <br /><br /> <img xsrc=”http:// mambo.mamboforge.net/ demo/images/stories/ asterisk.png” width=”70″ height=”67″ align=”left” hspace=”6″ alt=”Another logo” title=”Another logo” border=”0″ /> Mambo is set to change all that… Mambo is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it’s not complicated. Mambo has been developed for the masses. It’s licensed under the GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and reliable. Mambo doesn’t even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it’s up and running. |
| </td> <tr> <td align=”left” colspan=”2″> <a xhref=”index.php? option=com_content &task=view &id=l &Itemid=2″ class=”readon”>Read more…</a> |
</P> For the complete article click <A xhref=”index.php? option=com_content &task=view &id=l &Itemid=2″>here</A>. </FONT> </div> |
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