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Amazon Wins Retail Threaded Discussion Patent
from the prior-art? dept
Amazon.com has secured yet another questionable patent - and this time it's for something they don't even use right now. It's a system that would let customers be more interactive in their reviews by (instead of just posting a review) starting a "threaded discussion" on a review that would let others reply and comment on the review. How did this possibly get past the patent inspector? Isn't this basically the same threaded discussion features found in just about every online bulletin board system?
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*sigh* I've lost all faith in the system.
"Isn't this basically the same threaded discussion features found in just about every online bulletin board system? "
It is.
I'm guessing most blogs should now prepared to be sued. *sigh*
A quite topical UserFriendly comic here:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030227
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