On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, [windows-1251] Aitor Santamari'a Merino wrote: > > The FSF boycotts Amazon (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html) > > and I agree with them, so I won't follow your advice :) The more so as
Well, this is kidding. However (reading the first section only) there is one really important sentence: "Amazon is not alone at fault in what is happening. The US Patent Office is to blame for having very low standards, and US courts are to blame for endorsing them." I cannot blame Amazon for trying to make money from ideas of others, but the US P.O. for helping them. I mean read the article's summary about the patent: "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.)" Actually: What have been cookies invented for? This is called session tracking in many books about so-called web-programming. Who was the inventor - Netscape? Definitely not Amazon. But this is the bad face of Copyright/patent law, esp. when it becomes combined with IT and ill-knowledged functionaries (or whatever those persons working at the patent offices are called). Well, lastly triggered by the software patent stuff there seems to increase the people, who blame politics and economy for abusing Copyright and patent and that both are simply an anachronism of times of oppressions and failing goverment (aka Royals) and have to be liberated for todays needs - ever digged in history about where they come from -> "Copyright" is meant very literally. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
