[Wikipedia-l] Revenue and ISBN Links

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

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.