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Originally Posted by kacir
They do not copyright it, they patented it.
It was not Kindle, it was Amazon.
And they did not say they plan to insert advertisements into books.
Companies patent unbelievable amount of things. They do not necessarily plan to do such horrible thing, they just want to have it in their arsenal for future. Even such things as doubleclick (with mouse button), submenu, use of != operator for comparing of two variables are patented.
EVERYTHING regarding computers is patented.
Your (Astak) e-shop violates at least a dozen of software and business methods patents. No. I am not exaggerating. See http://webshop.ffii.org/
and for more details www.nosoftwarepatents.com
The above examples talk about European software patents and it is impossible to patent software in Europe, pepole just find loopholes. Situation in USA is much, MUCH, worse.
Your only hope is that you (the Astak company) do not become too successful, because as soon as vultures smell you have enough money you get a letter from their legal counsel specializing in intellectual property. "I see you have a nice establishment here, it would be shame should something bad happen to it" |
Dear Kacir:
You could be right about "too successful". Staying "under the radar has some advantages" I suppose. You know your stuff!