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

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

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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