SBC: ALL YOUR BUTTON ARE BELONG TO US

So according to Cringely, SBC are now trying to extract money from websites that use active buttons to refresh content. I kid you not, they claim SBC now possesses a patent that gives them a piece of the action from, well, basically every website in the world with button bar navigation. Good luck with that! I think SBC will have as much luck enforcing this patent as did BT when it tried to claim that it owned hyperlinking.

Before it gets dismissed, of course, their legal blue meanies will cause as much damage and sabotage as they can. They’ve already tried leaning on one website – a bunch of people that sell kids’ educational toys. Their attractiveness is undoubtedly based on the fact that they’re a small outfit with minimal legal resources and their website uses a lot of buttons along the top bar.