January 20th, 2005

Hyperlinking to Hutchison Whampoa Limited forbidden

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Maybe they don’t want people to find them. The copyright notice for the web site of Hutchison Whampoa Limited states,

Copyright Hutchison Whampoa Limited. 2003. All rights reserved.

No person, whether an individual or a body corporate, shall create or establish a hyperlink to the HWL Corporate Website by hypertext reference or imaging without the written permission of Hutchison.

I can’t create a hyperlink so you’ll have to find it yourself.

This isn’t an issue of deep linking; they are banning even links to their home page.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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