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Amazon owns all your URL's (and the US patent office is full with idiots)Amazon (apart from having cool services such as EC2 and S3) is known for it's infamous patents. And the patent office in the US known for having idiots as employees. A great combination! After their "one click shopping" patent, now A9 (amazons's search engine) claims their fame by patenting a String at End of a URL. Prior what? Something Drupal does -in combination with some mod rewrite voodoo- for ages.
And it is new according to Amazon, because:
Now it is clear that Amazon doesn't get a way with this and the moment they would sue a Drupal site that can do this like Drupal.org the complete blogosphere and OSS community would be against Amazon making them the paria that SCO has become. Yet, there will be a time -I think within the next 20 month or so- that Drupal.org, Dries, the hosting party or the Drupal Association will get sued over a patent. That's why we -not just Drupal but the complete Open Source community- have to get organized and be prepared for such a slaughter. That's why there is work under way from Dries and the Association to be prepared. And you can help the association. By donating time or money. Please do! By bertboerland at 23/10/2007 - 18:59 | drupal | english | internet culture | money | Sad | search-engines | weird | bertboerland's blog | 574 reads
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