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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org, piw@lists.ibiblion.org
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  • Subject: [pcplantdb] Ugh, more nasty patents
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:46:09 -0600

As near as I can tell, Amazon is trying to patent what PIW more or
less is going to do. Specifically they are trying to patent the
"Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to
enhance browsing of electronic catalogs"

Currently on the front page of slashdot:
<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1215224&tid=155&tid=1>

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Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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