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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/amazon.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/amazon.html index 70f904d..502ea8c 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/amazon.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/amazon.html @@ -1,24 +1,31 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws patents" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>(Formerly) Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/amazon.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>(Formerly) Boycott Amazon!</h2> -<div class="comment"> +<div class="infobox"> <p> -The FSF decided to end its boycott of Amazon in September 2002. (We +<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 & Noble, but it did not seem to be very harmful to the defendant. And Amazon had not attacked anyone -else.</p> +else.</i></p> <p> -Amazon has got a number of other menacing patents since then, but has +<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.</p> +it does, we will take a look at how to denounce it.</i></p> <p> -The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott -was active.</p> +<i>The rest of this page is as it was in 2001 while the boycott +was active.</i></p> </div> <hr class="thin" /> @@ -40,7 +47,7 @@ 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 +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 @@ -173,14 +180,14 @@ 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 +<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.</p> <p> -<a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard M. Stallman</a> has written a +<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 @@ -204,19 +211,20 @@ obnoxious things</a> in another courtroom, too.</p> <p> See <a -href="http://endsoftpatents.org">http://endsoftpatents.org</a> for +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>.</p> <p> -<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010430183216/http://www.cpsr.org/links/bookstore/"> +<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>.</p> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -234,13 +242,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -261,8 +269,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 -Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<p>Copyright © 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -272,7 +279,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2020/07/01 15:25:23 $ +$Date: 2021/09/02 08:55:39 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |