Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:45:58 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amazon email response Message-ID: <20000328124557.A28680@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <0vu2hrqtay.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>; from jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:32:05PM %2B0200 References: <owner-freebsd-chatATFreeBSD.ORG--20000324150922.A89498@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000328115433.A11980@cons.org> <0vu2hrqtay.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
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In <0vu2hrqtay.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>, Roland Jesse wrote: > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> writes: > > > 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 > > Why do you think is that? On several occasions I found they they in fact just try to crash amazon instead of creating their own thing. Almost all of their web site is not only reusing good features from amazons (which would be ok for me), but the whole thing is a outright copy instead of inferious quality i.e. no zoomable title gifs. Amazon's also speaks of unreasonable business practices of B&N, trying to force suppliers to screw amazon. They have bigger market weigth so that they might indeed have enough power to crush amazon by unfair methods. Their outright copying of a competitors websites leads me to te imppression that they're in fact equipped with insufficient fantasy to continue to improve the books selling business once amazon is off the market. That would leave *me* in a worse situation if that happens. Overall, it looks like Microsoft implementing some junk that passed the insufficient POSIX tests and telling the suits that NT can do all Unix can since NT supports the Unix API but not vice versa and similar Microsoftish tricks by looking like something real to stupid decision-makers. I someone copy'ed my business's website (nonexistent) - which is the core of my business - the way B&N did with amazons I would in fact declare war on them and face some trouble with Stallman etc., even while I might respect those people. But don't understand me wrong: Software patents are bad and I only support amazon as long as they are very careful not to worse the patent situation. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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