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Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering
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>>My apologies, I think we're off topic already. :)
LOL... "off the topic?" I am just happy to see people in here exchanging
ideas about something other than where you are going to eat after the next
meeting.
Nancy Imelda Schafer
Webmaster
----- Original Message -----
From: John Nolan <jpnolan@sonic.net>
To: <phl@lists.pm.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering
He is spinning like a pro. ;)
IMHO the only real solution is for Congress to pass some kind
of new law concerning patents. The patent office just needs
to have some sense knocked into it. I don't think it will happen
unless voters start complaining to their Congresspersons.
It's not clear to me how you decide what's patentable
and what's not, but I definitely agree that right now
too many patents are issued for too many really simple ideas.
My apologies, I think we're off topic already. :)
> http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/bezos_0300.html
>
> Jeff Bezos makes the case that 1-click ordering is a complete reframing
> of the ecommerce problem away from shopping carts. In *THAT* sense,
> this was a significant innovation (he says).
>
> He goes on to say that this isn't intended to hobble anyone, in as much
> as it's a weapon to stave off attacks from bricks-and-mortar businesses
> like Walmart and B&N.
>
> I'm really confused here, because Bezos says:
>
> Jeff: We aren't going after those developers. There are lots of
> people using 1-click purchasing on their sites whom we aren't
> suing. We're just going after the big guys who are going after
> us, the guys who are not innovating themselves but just copying
> us and working to crush us.
>
> Ummm, if you don't protect a patent, doesn't that invalidate it? Or
> am I thinking about copyrights/trademarks?
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