From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 7:28:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F71C37C404 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000301152822.LSUS9076.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A> for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:28:22 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: Subject: Amazon's patent, lawsuit, and boycott Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:34:30 -0800 Message-ID: <000801bf8393$a3a82480$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Good morning, The last time I was out at the O'Reilly web site I found out about the amazon patent on their one click ordering feature. I had seen some e-mail signatures saying that someone was boycotting amazon but I hadn't found out about the reason until I read Tim O'Reilly's letter on the subject. The letter is at this site: http://www.ora.com/ask_tim/amazon_patent.html If you feel so inclined there is an open letter you can sign at: http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/amazon_patent.comments.html You might want to look it over John Purser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message