From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 1999 - 13:07:15 MST
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
Richard Stallman -- Boycott Amazon!
Please do not buy from Amazon.
Amazon has obtained a US patent (5,960,411) on an important and
obvious idea for E-commerce: the idea that your command in a web
browser to buy a certain item can carry along information about
your identity. (This works by sending back a "cookie", a kind of
ID code that your browser received previously from the same server.)
Amazon has sued to block the use of this simple idea, showing that
they truly intend to monopolize it. This is an attack against the
World Wide Web and against E-commerce in general.
Cheers,
--J. R. Molloy
http://www.shasta.com/jr
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