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The 1-Click patent was the genesis of a long debate between Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly about software patents. It resulted in the formation of BountyQuest, a 2
by NelsonMinar 9y ago
The 1-Click patent was the genesis of a long debate between Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly about software patents. It resulted in the formation of BountyQuest, a 2000-era effort to pay bounties for prior art for bad patents. Unfortunately it didn't really work out. But the history of arguing about software patents is pretty interesting. http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/patent_archive.html http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/patent_archiv...
- breck 9y agoThis was super interesting, thanks for sharing. I particularly liked this: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/amazon_patents.html http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/amazon_patent... Does anyone know what happened with Bezos' proposal for "fast patents"?
- slim 9y agoIt got patented