[H-GEN] Amazon.com and the Patent issue. We won this one!

[Andrae Muys]

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/patents.html/002-7717695-7829067

Amazon is not only backing down from it's previous patent position,
they're lobbying the US congress to fix the patent system!

Good news for once :).

Andrae

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Senior IT Officer                   adequately explained by incompetence."
The Centre for Magnetic Resonance                   -Napoleon Bonaparte
The University of Queensland


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