Re: Slade's Law of Computer History

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Because they're trying to differentiate their markets.

No self-respecting Feminist from the Twin Cities buys their books NEW!

Seriously, Amazon has been the poster child for how the completely
unimaginative have managed to profit from taking the obvious/other
people's ideas and applying large amounts of capital to it.

Examples:

McDonalds: (Ray Kroc made money copying someone else's business idea).

Dell: As if there were no build to order computer stores around, in just
about every town, at the time.

<insert chain restaurant pretending to be ethnic here>

Every mutual fund and 401K company except for Fidelity and Vanguard

Every big box store except for Wal-Mart.

And... Amazon, who based their company on Wal-Mart's IP.

http://news.cnet.com/Wal-Mart-sues-Amazon,-others/2100-1001_3-216812.htm
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No wonder Bezos files patents on everything. He knows how weak other
protections of a company's crown jewels are.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 1:25 AM
> To: rMslade () shaw ca
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Slade's Law of Computer History
>
> Nothing surprises me about Bezos and friends.
>
> "Battle of the Amazons" Why are Jeff Bezos' lawyers asking
> sexual-orientation questions about the ladies who run a bookstore in
> Minneapolis? http://www.salon.com/technology/log/1999/10/28/amazon
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon
> & Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> > Those who fail to learn the lessons of computer history are doomed
to
> buy it
> > again--repackaged.
> >
> > http://bit.ly/cviLdZ
> >
> > [SNIP]
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