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To: gladman who wrote (90016)	1/6/2000 3:27:00 PM
From: dclapp	Respond to of 164684

bless you my son :-)

To: gladman who wrote (90016)	1/6/2000 5:17:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 164684

There are plenty of web-based outlets for books 'n stuff so I'm definitely not using Amazon ever again. I thought these stupid patents with the insane attempt to patent the use of CD-ROMs, not for storing, but for storing pictures. Then we might see somebody patent CD-ROMs for storing pink and blue pictures, or maybe another patent for storing pink and blue elephant pictures. It was laughed out of court. There isn't any difference between slapping something on a CD or a hard disk or a DVD or whatever. It would be like TurboTax trying to get a patent on the use of hard-disks for storing a file containing income tax information; it was that stupid. Compton's had nothing to do with the development of the CD-ROM or the technology that created, displayed or played sound and image information. They just slapped some crap on a CD-ROM and because they did it early they thought that particular use was patentable. What a joke. For the technically minded, the patent that Amazon slipped by regulators is an even bigger joke. Amazon has nothing at all to do with any of the technical inovations being used by the company. They are butt-smart resellers of cheap stuff. It would be like a phone-order catalog vendor trying to get a patent on asking for a damn customer ID over the phone. So company X, Y and Z could then not be allowed to use the phone to accept a customer ID because that would violate some butt-brain's patent? I don't think so. See you Amazon, it's been nice knowing you. linuxtoday.com