From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 24 8:22:19 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 4BAC637B747 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:22:16 -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 <20000324162215.PPAH12749.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c37259a>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:22:15 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'J McKitrick'" , Subject: RE: amazon email response Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:20:31 -0800 Message-ID: <000901bf95ac$e09c0ca0$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 In-Reply-To: <20000324150922.A89498@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org That's the same form letter I got when I closed my account a month or so ago. One really funny part about this situation is in Jeff Bezos's letter to Tim O'Reilly. Jeff claims that he will only enforce the patent against businesses that have acted in an anti-competitive manner! I started recommending Powells as an alternative to Amazon but read in the paper this morning that they're embroiled in a labor dispute. It's a "Union Shop or not" issue which I'm not comfortable supporting or fighting (no clear bad guy) so I'm looking for an alternative for online book buying. I'm trying to avoid the big guys and I want a good selection, rapid shipping, and a good web site. In short, Amazon without the patent issue. Anybody got any suggestions? John Purser *********************************************************************** Currently boycotting Amazon.com To find out why visit: http://perl.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/amazon_patent.comments.pl For an alternative visit: http://www.powells.com/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of J McKitrick Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:09 AM To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: amazon email response Hope this come out right.. i'm using attachments.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message