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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>(Formerly) Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include <span
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+<span class="removed"><del><strong><h2>Boycott</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><h2>(Formerly) Boycott</em></ins></span>
Amazon!</h2>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>
+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 <span
class="removed"><del><strong>and</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>&</em></ins></span> Noble, but it did not seem to
+be very harmful to the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>defendent.</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>defendant.</em></ins></span> And Amazon had not
attacked anyone
+else.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott
+was active.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+If you support the boycott,
+<br />
+<em>Please make links to this page</em>
+<br />
+<strong>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html</strong> !!!!
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3 id="whyBoycott">Why we boycott Amazon</h3>
+<p>
+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 “cookie”, a kind of ID code that your browser
+received previously from the same server.)</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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)—power
+to control all use of this technique. Although only one company is
+being sued today, the issue affects the whole Internet.</p>
+<p>
+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—a policy that is harmful in general. (See
+<a href="http://progfree.org">http://progfree.org/</a> for more
+information about the broader issue of
+<a href="http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html">software
patents</a>.)</p>
+
+<p>
+Foolish government policies gave Amazon the opportunity—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.</p>
+<p>
+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 semirelevant detail to make
+this “invention” look like something subtle.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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
+“author comment” about your book, on Amazon's web site.
+(Alas, it appears they are refusing to post these comments for
+authors.)</p>
+<p>
+If you have suggestions, or if you simply support the boycott, please
+send mail to <a
href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
+to let us know.</p>
+<p>
+Amazon's response to people who write about the patent contains a
+subtle misdirection which is worth analyzing:</p>
+<blockquote><p>
+ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation, and we spent
+ thousands of hours developing our 1-ClickR shopping feature.
+</p></blockquote>
+<p>
+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?</p>
+<p>
+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 “thousands of hours
+developing” could include either of these two jobs.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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—they are a
+retailer. Public disgust can affect their profits.</p>
+<p>
+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!</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+The boycott can also indirectly help change patent law—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?</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<h3 id="whyContinue">Why the Boycott Continues Given that the Suit has
+Settled</h3>
+
+<p>
+Amazon.com reported in March 2002 that it had settled its long-running
+patent-infringement suit against Barnes <span
class="removed"><del><strong>and</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>&</em></ins></span> Noble over its 1-Click
+checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed.</p>
+
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<h3 id="Updates">Updates and Links</h3>
+
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>
+Tim O'Reilly has sent Amazon an
+<a
href="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.</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="http://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, <acronym title="Chief
+Executive Officer">CEO</acronym> of Amazon, which called for software
+patents to last just 3 or 5 years.</p>
+
+<p>
+Paul Barton-Davis
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>,
+one of the founding programmers
+at Amazon, <a
href="http://www.equalarea.com/paul/amazon-1click.html">writes</a>
+about the Amazon Boycott.</p>
+
+<p>
+Nat Friedman wrote in with an
+<a href="/philosophy/amazon-nat.html">Amazon Boycott success
story</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+On the side, Amazon is doing
+<a
href="http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/10/28/amazon/index.html">other
+obnoxious things</a> in another courtroom, too.</p>
+
+<!-- This link is dead, sinuhe 20030830
+<p>
+The FTC has also made several <a
+href="http://www.gomez.com/features/article.asp?topcat_id=0&col=16&id=7690">questionable
+decisions regarding Amazon and consumer privacy</a>.</p>
+-->
+
+<p>
+See <a href="http://progfree.org">http://progfree.org/</a> for
+more information about the broader issue of
+<a href="http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html">software
patents</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010430183216/http://www.cpsr.org/links/bookstore/">
+Computer Professionals for
+Social Responsibility have dropped their affiliation with
Amazon</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+
+<p>
+Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a
href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.
+<br />
+Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
+<a
href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please see the
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+translations of this article.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+</p>
+<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110,
USA</address>
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.
+</p>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><p>
+Updated:</strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><!--#include
virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p>Updated:</em></ins></span>
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2013/03/12 18:01:42 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+</pre></body></html>
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+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>/philosophy/amazon.html-diff</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+span.removed { background-color: #f22; color: #000; }
+span.inserted { background-color: #2f2; color: #000; }
+</style></head>
+<body><pre>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>(Formerly) Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include <span
class="removed"><del><strong>virtual="/server/banner.html"</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>virtual="/philosophy/po/amazon.translist"</em></ins></span>
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+<!--#include <span
class="removed"><del><strong>virtual="/philosophy/po/amazon.translist"</strong></del></span>
<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>virtual="/server/banner.html"</em></ins></span> -->
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><h2>Boycott</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><h2>(Formerly) Boycott</em></ins></span>
Amazon!</h2>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>
+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 <span
class="removed"><del><strong>and</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>&</em></ins></span> Noble, but it did not seem to
+be very harmful to the <span
class="removed"><del><strong>defendent.</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>defendant.</em></ins></span> And Amazon had not
attacked anyone
+else.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott
+was active.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+If you support the boycott,
+<br />
+<em>Please make links to this page</em>
+<br />
+<strong>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html</strong> !!!!
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h3 id="whyBoycott">Why we boycott Amazon</h3>
+<p>
+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 “cookie”, a kind of ID code that your browser
+received previously from the same server.)</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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)—power
+to control all use of this technique. Although only one company is
+being sued today, the issue affects the whole Internet.</p>
+<p>
+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—a policy that is harmful in general. (See
+<a href="http://progfree.org">http://progfree.org/</a> for more
+information about the broader issue of
+<a href="http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html">software
patents</a>.)</p>
+
+<p>
+Foolish government policies gave Amazon the opportunity—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.</p>
+<p>
+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 semirelevant detail to make
+this “invention” look like something subtle.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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
+“author comment” about your book, on Amazon's web site.
+(Alas, it appears they are refusing to post these comments for
+authors.)</p>
+<p>
+If you have suggestions, or if you simply support the boycott, please
+send mail to <a
href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
+to let us know.</p>
+<p>
+Amazon's response to people who write about the patent contains a
+subtle misdirection which is worth analyzing:</p>
+<blockquote><p>
+ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation, and we spent
+ thousands of hours developing our 1-ClickR shopping feature.
+</p></blockquote>
+<p>
+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?</p>
+<p>
+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 “thousands of hours
+developing” could include either of these two jobs.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+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—they are a
+retailer. Public disgust can affect their profits.</p>
+<p>
+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!</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+<p>
+The boycott can also indirectly help change patent law—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?</p>
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<h3 id="whyContinue">Why the Boycott Continues Given that the Suit has
+Settled</h3>
+
+<p>
+Amazon.com reported in March 2002 that it had settled its long-running
+patent-infringement suit against Barnes <span
class="removed"><del><strong>and</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>&</em></ins></span> Noble over its 1-Click
+checkout system. The details of the settlement were not disclosed.</p>
+
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<h3 id="Updates">Updates and Links</h3>
+
+<p>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>
+Tim O'Reilly has sent Amazon an
+<a
href="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.</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="http://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, <acronym title="Chief
+Executive Officer">CEO</acronym> of Amazon, which called for software
+patents to last just 3 or 5 years.</p>
+
+<p>
+Paul Barton-Davis
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>,
+one of the founding programmers
+at Amazon, <a
href="http://www.equalarea.com/paul/amazon-1click.html">writes</a>
+about the Amazon Boycott.</p>
+
+<p>
+Nat Friedman wrote in with an
+<a href="/philosophy/amazon-nat.html">Amazon Boycott success
story</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+On the side, Amazon is doing
+<a
href="http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/10/28/amazon/index.html">other
+obnoxious things</a> in another courtroom, too.</p>
+
+<!-- This link is dead, sinuhe 20030830
+<p>
+The FTC has also made several <a
+href="http://www.gomez.com/features/article.asp?topcat_id=0&col=16&id=7690">questionable
+decisions regarding Amazon and consumer privacy</a>.</p>
+-->
+
+<p>
+See <a href="http://progfree.org">http://progfree.org/</a> for
+more information about the broader issue of
+<a href="http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html">software
patents</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010430183216/http://www.cpsr.org/links/bookstore/">
+Computer Professionals for
+Social Responsibility have dropped their affiliation with
Amazon</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
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+
+<p>
+Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a
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+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.
+<br />
+Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
+<a
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+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please see the
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+translations of this article.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+</p>
+<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110,
USA</address>
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
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+</p>
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><p>
+Updated:</strong></del></span>
+
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+
+<p>Updated:</em></ins></span>
+<!-- timestamp start -->
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+<!-- timestamp end -->
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