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Re: [PLUG] Fw: Revolution OS
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(Just and opinion. Feel free to attempt to change my mind.) Why
bother boycotting Amazon? I would never use the one-click option
anyway! They can have the idea and the code behind it. As long as I
get good prices on books that are shipped quickly, I don't care.
> Why we boycott Amazon
>
> Amazon has obtained a US patent (5,960,411) on an important and obvious idea for E-commerce: an idea sometimes known as one-click purchasing. The idea is
> that your command in a web browser to buy a certain item can carry along information about your identity. (It works by sending the server a "cookie", a kind of ID
> code that your browser received previously from the same server.)
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