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.