From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 28 1:55:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (grisu.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9AF37BDC2 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@counter.bik-gmbh.de) Received: from counter.bik-gmbh.de (counter.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.131]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18072; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:55:04 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by counter.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) id LAA12629; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:54:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:54:33 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: J McKitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amazon email response Message-ID: <20000328115433.A11980@cons.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from J McKitrick on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:30:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I really hate to defend a software patent abuser, but I still buy at amazon for the following reasons: The usability of their website and the number of book descpriontions is magnitudes better than the next one. Maybe not so much for computer books, but for history and similar areas it is hard to beat. No major security concerns has been brought up about amazon (at least that I heared of). For me as a German it is not that bad if my credit card number is stolen, but nontheless I wouldn't like it to be in public abuse collections. They're responsive to email, and the answers don't miss the question as it is often the case for ebusiness companies. For the moment it looks like they try to improve the software patent issue. A company like amazon as an ally when fighting the madness is very important. See Tim O'Reillys latest letter exchanges. The facts so far don't contradict their claim that they use their patent only against B&N and that B&N is in fact worth fighting They once were known for spamming and stopped that (AFAIK). This as well supports the opinion that they are willing to work with and react on reasonable people. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go. Today. http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message