From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 18: 3:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C7D37BEE3 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbryant@ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net) Received: from ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net ([207.193.186.87]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FQR00C38UZCL9@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:02:03 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) id UAA14646; Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:01:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:01:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant Subject: Re: Amazon's patent, lawsuit, and boycott In-reply-to: <000801bf8393$a3a82480$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> To: johnmpurser@home.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: kc5vdj@swbell.net Message-id: <200003020201.UAA14646@ppp-207-193-186-87.kscymo.swbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #8: Sat Oct 30 00:56:56 CDT 1999 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply: > 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 prior art exists. i'm surprised the patent was issued. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KC5VDJ - HF to 23cm KC5VDJ@NW0I.#NEKS.KS.USA.NOAM kc5vdj@swbell.net IC-706MkII - IC-T81A - HTX-202 - HTX-212 - HTX-404 - KPC3+ - PK-232MBX/DSP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ET has one helluva sense of humor, always anal-probing right-wing schizos! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message