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[FYI] Financial Post (Canada): Amazon's surrender to the free software fallacy



http://linuxtoday.com/stories/18452.html

Financial Post (Canada): Amazon's
surrender to the free software fallacy
Mar 15, 2000, 20:35 UTC (22 Talkbacks) (Other stories by Owen Lippert) 

By Owen Lippert, Financial Post 

Last Thursday, Amazon.com president Jeff Bezos, in an open letter, linked
hypocrisy to the World Wide Web. In response to a protest boycott over
Amazon's use of business practice software patents, Mr. Bezos said in essence
it will continue to keep and defend its patents, but will lobby for shortened
patent protection of three to five years for software designers to come. By
pandering to the "free software" crowd, Mr. Bezos has undermined the
legitimate right to own your own ideas embodied in computer code. A right
he himself enjoys. How did such patent hypocrisy arise? 

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