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[FYI] Anti-patent protest rains cookies on Amazon.fr's parade



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12992.html

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Anti-patent protest rains cookies on Amazon.fr's parade 

By: John Lettice

Posted: 04/09/2000 at 12:30 GMT

Amazon's dubious patent activities came back to haunt the company 
last week at the Paris launch of amazon.fr. Amazon had pushed the 
boat(s) out for the occasion, inviting 4,000 guests to a party on the 
Seine, but was faced by a small clutch of demonstrators from 
campaigning groups APRIL and AFUL, handing out leaflets and "free 
cookies, not patented by Amazon."  

APRIL (Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique 
Libre) and AFUL (Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et 
des Logiciels Libres), were expressing support for the Eurolinux 
campaign on computer patents. 

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