Not that I want to nourish the troll. But didn't Amazon recant and start
a fund for changing patent laws?? I thought that Tom O' Reilly convinced
them of the error of there ways (I'm sure if I look it up on google
there is a posting of that on the O'reilly site somewhere). 

Carl P. 

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 20:11, KevinO wrote:
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > ....they are boycotting Amazon because
> > they had the audacity to copyright the One Click" ordering.  
> 
> It was a patent, not a copyright. Do you understand the concepts of patent 
> disclosure ? Or perhaps prior art ? Do you know the purpose of having patent 
> laws are in the first place ?
> 
> Not that I am 'personally' participating in the boycott.
> 
> > Those people at the gnu project have obviously been smoking that wacky tobacco 
> since the 60's non stop.
> 
> This is out of line here !
> 
> There is an old saying that would seem to apply here :
> 
> Engage brain before starting mouth !
> 
> Please ???
> -- 
> Kevin O'Connor
> 
>   "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ...
> 
> The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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