Re: Bezos on 1-click ordering

[Nicolai Rosen <nick@netaxs.com>]

Well as long as we're off topic...

I think that the whole idea of a patent is absurd. You're saying that you
own a discovery. It's not like a piece of literature that you're creating
uniquely out of your own skull. The methods to do these things already
exist. You're just discovering them. I think that for something like the
design of a particular piece of machinery or electronics or an IC chip you
should merely be able to use a copyright. This whole patent thing is
rediculous (actually, even w/ copyright's I'm a bit iffy. The idea of
intellectual property has always seemed a bit, artificial for me).

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Spyder's Empire wrote:
> >>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
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> 
> ----- 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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Nicolai Rosen
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