Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Tim Bray on Canada's Intellectual Property Office

Author:	Jacob Savin
Posted:	2/28/2000; 2:40:04 PM
Topic:	Tim Bray on Canada's Intellectual Property Office
Msg #:	15330 (In response to 15317)
Prev/Next:	15329 / 15331

This is disgusting.

How could they possibly believe that this would hold up in any court? Yeesch- do they think take on the credit card industry? Has Bezos ever placed an order on the telephone with a credit card? I'd say that counts as "placing a purchase order via a communications network".

Or is Bezos just snapping up patents because it looks good to non-tech-savvy venture capitalists, who he wants to invest in his company. That might partially explain the incredible growth of Amazon despite no hope of making a profit in the near future.

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