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msgid "(Formerly) Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation"
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#. type: Content of: <div><h2>
msgid "(Formerly) Boycott Amazon!"
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#. type: Content of: <div><div><p>
msgid ""
"<i>The FSF decided to end its boycott of Amazon in September 2002.  (We "
"forgot to edit this page at the time.)  We could not tell the precise result "
"of the lawsuit against Barnes &amp; Noble, but it did not seem to be very "
"harmful to the defendant.  And Amazon had not attacked anyone else.</i>"
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"<i>Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then, but has not "
"as yet used them for aggression.  Perhaps it will not do so.  If it does, we "
"will take a look at how to denounce it.</i>"
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"<i>The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott was "
"active.</i>"
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
msgid "If you support the boycott,"
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
msgid "<em>Please make links to this page</em>"
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
msgid "<strong>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html</strong> !!!!"
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#. type: Content of: <div><h3>
msgid "Why we boycott Amazon"
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
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"Amazon has obtained a <a href=\"/philosophy/amazonpatent.html\">US patent "
"(5,960,411)</a> 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 &ldquo;cookie,&rdquo; a kind of "
"ID code that your browser received previously from the same server.)"
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"Amazon has sued to block the use of this simple idea, showing that they "
"truly intend to monopolize it.  This is an attack against the World Wide Web "
"and against E-commerce in general."
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"The idea patented here is just that a company can give you something which "
"you can subsequently show them to identify yourself for credit.  This is "
"nothing new: a physical credit card does the same job, after all.  But the "
"US Patent Office issues patents on obvious and well-known ideas every day.  "
"Sometimes the result is a disaster."
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"Today Amazon is suing one large company.  If this were just a dispute "
"between two companies, it would not be an important public issue.  But the "
"patent gives Amazon the power over anyone who runs a web site in the US (and "
"any other countries that give them similar patents)&mdash;power to control "
"all use of this technique.  Although only one company is being sued today, "
"the issue affects the whole Internet."
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"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.  And US patent law is to blame for authorizing patents on "
"information-manipulating techniques and patterns of communication&mdash;a "
"policy that is harmful in general."
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"Foolish government policies gave Amazon the opportunity&mdash;but an "
"opportunity is not an excuse.  Amazon made the choice to obtain this patent, "
"and the choice to use it in court for aggression.  The ultimate moral "
"responsibility for Amazon's actions lies with Amazon's executives."
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"We can hope that the court will find this patent is legally invalid.  "
"Whether they do so will depend on detailed facts and obscure "
"technicalities.  The patent uses piles of semi-relevant detail to make this "
"&ldquo;invention&rdquo; look like something subtle."
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"But we do not have to wait passively for the court to decide the freedom of "
"E-commerce.  There is something we can do right now: we can refuse to do "
"business with Amazon.  Please do not buy anything from Amazon until they "
"promise to stop using this patent to threaten or restrict other web sites."
msgstr ""

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"If you are the author of a book sold by Amazon, you can provide powerful "
"help to this campaign by putting this text into the &ldquo;author "
"comment&rdquo; about your book, on Amazon's web site.  (Alas, it appears "
"they are refusing to post these comments for authors.)"
msgstr ""

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"If you have suggestions, or if you simply support the boycott, please send "
"mail to <a href=\"mailto:amazon@gnu.org\">&lt;amazon@gnu.org&gt;</a> to let "
"us know."
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"Amazon's response to people who write about the patent contains a subtle "
"misdirection which is worth analyzing:"
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"The patent system is designed to encourage innovation, and we spent "
"thousands of hours developing our 1-ClickR shopping feature."
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"If they did spend thousands of hours, they surely did not spend it thinking "
"of the general technique that the patent covers.  So if they are telling the "
"truth, what did they spend those hours doing?"
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"Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application.  That "
"task was surely harder than thinking of the technique.  Or perhaps they are "
"talking about the time it took designing, writing, testing, and perfecting "
"the scripts and the web pages to handle one-click shopping.  That was surely "
"a substantial job.  Looking carefully at their words, it seems the "
"&ldquo;thousands of hours developing&rdquo; could include either of these "
"two jobs."
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"But the issue here is not about the details in their particular scripts "
"(which they do not release to us) and web pages (which are copyrighted "
"anyway).  The issue here is the general idea, and whether Amazon should have "
"a monopoly on that idea."
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"Are you, or I, free to spend the necessary hours writing our own scripts, "
"our own web pages, to provide one-click shopping? Even if we are selling "
"something other than books, are we free to do this? That is the question.  "
"Amazon seeks to deny us that freedom, with the eager help of a misguided US "
"government."
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"When Amazon sends out cleverly misleading statements like the one quoted "
"above, it demonstrates something important: they do care what the public "
"thinks of their actions.  They must care&mdash;they are a retailer.  Public "
"disgust can affect their profits."
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"People have pointed out that the problem of software patents is much bigger "
"than Amazon, that other companies might have acted just the same, and that "
"boycotting Amazon won't directly change patent law.  Of course, these are "
"all true.  But that is no argument against this boycott!"
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"If we mount the boycott strongly and lastingly, Amazon may eventually make a "
"concession to end it.  And even if they do not, the next company which has "
"an outrageous software patent and considers suing someone will realize there "
"can be a price to pay.  They may have second thoughts."
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"The boycott can also indirectly help change patent law&mdash;by calling "
"attention to the issue and spreading demand for change.  And it is so easy "
"to participate that there is no need to be deterred on that account.  If you "
"agree about the issue, why <em>not</em> boycott Amazon?"
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"To help spread the word, please put a note about the boycott on your own "
"personal web page, and on institutional pages as well if you can.  Make a "
"link to this page; updated information will be placed here."
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msgid "Why the Boycott Continues Given that the Suit has Settled"
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"Amazon.com reported in March 2002 that it had settled its long-running "
"patent-infringement suit against Barnes &amp; Noble over its 1-Click "
"checkout system.  The details of the settlement were not disclosed."
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"Since the terms were not disclosed, we have no way of knowing whether this "
"represents a defeat for Amazon such as would justify ending the boycott.  "
"Thus, we encourage everyone to continue the boycott."
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msgid "Updates and Links"
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
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"In this section, we list updates and links about issues related to "
"Amazon.com, their business practices, and stories related to the boycott.  "
"New information is added to the bottom of this section."
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"Tim O'Reilly has sent Amazon an <a "
"href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20131114095827/http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/amazon_patent.html\">open "
"letter</a> disapproving of the use of this patent, stating the position "
"about as forcefully as possible given an unwillingness to stop doing "
"business with them."
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"<a href=\"https://www.stallman.org/\">Richard M. Stallman</a> has written a "
"<a href=\"/philosophy/amazon-rms-tim.html\">letter to Tim O'Reilly</a> in "
"regard to the statement by Jeff Bezos, <abbr title=\"Chief Executive "
"Officer\">CEO</abbr> of Amazon, which called for software patents to last "
"just 3 or 5 years."
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"Paul Barton-Davis <a href=\"mailto:pbd@op.net\">&lt;pbd@op.net&gt;</a>, one "
"of the founding programmers at Amazon, <a "
"href=\"http://www.equalarea.com/paul/amazon-1click.html\">writes</a> about "
"the Amazon Boycott."
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
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"Nat Friedman wrote in with an <a href=\"/philosophy/amazon-nat.html\">Amazon "
"Boycott success story</a>."
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"On the side, Amazon is doing <a "
"href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20140610154715/http://www.salon.com/1999/10/28/amazon_3/\">other "
"obnoxious things</a> in another courtroom, too."
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#. type: Content of: <div><p>
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"See <a href=\"https://endsoftpatents.org\">endsoftpatents.org</a> for more "
"information about the broader issue of <a "
"href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20150329143651/http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html\"> "
"software patents</a>."
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"<a "
"href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20010430183216/http://www.cpsr.org/links/bookstore/\"> "
"Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility have dropped their "
"affiliation with Amazon</a>."
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"Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to <a "
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"other corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a "
"href=\"mailto:webmasters@gnu.org\">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>."
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