On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:56:57AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
<personal opinion>
My own personal opinion: I'm not happy with some of the things that
Amazon has done, but I'm also a very satisfied customer, and I shop
there regularly. I think that the charge of 'evildoer' is overblown.
I was just reading this history of Rwanda, with 800,000 dead due to
genocide. That's evil. Amazon filing stupid patents, well, it's
stupid and I don't like it, but we do need to keep some perspective.
</personal opinion>
Because of "stupid patents" milions died of AIDS. Part of money sent
to Amazon goes to bribe politicians to expand patent laws, and in
effect to kill more people.