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.
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Related pages:
- Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott
- Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro
