Anti-Trust Violations Followed by Boycott of Amazon (Software Patents Pest)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-05-23 06:18:02 UTC
Modified: 2008-05-23 10:22:22 UTC

We mentioned Amazon and its affairs on several occasions in the past, particularly due to their unhealthy love for horrible software patents [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12].

Days ago, as we've pointed out somewhere among the link digests, Amazon was accused of anti-trust violations. Allison Randal took it a step further and has just decided to boycott Amazon.

In light of Amazon's attempts to lock print-on-demand publishers into their own printing services, I've made a personal decision not to buy from Amazon any more.

Let's not forget the recent Trend Micro boycott [1, 2], which came immediately after patent harassment targeted at FOSS. ⬆

Related pages:

Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott

Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro

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