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GFischer on Oct 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to...

They used the One-Click patent against their then biggest rival Barnes & Noble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

Several organizations have boycotted Amazon for that:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html

smokeyj on Oct 17, 2012 [–]

Thats pretty low, but only reinforces the notions that IP is bad for consumers.

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