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> all you need is a requirement "reduce the number of steps a user needs to place a purchase order", and that's the logical conclusion. That's it - my new goal
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
> all you need is a requirement "reduce the number of steps a user needs to place a purchase order", and that's the logical conclusion.
That's it - my new goal is to invent and patent the Zero-Click Purchase.
You read it here first.
- rubyrescue 16y agoi've been saying this for years. my idea was - hover over an item for more than a few seconds, it's delivered to your house! you better lawyer up.
- eftpotrm 16y agoSlashdot described the method and benefits for this many years ago, so could be cited as prior art.
- Symmetry 16y agoMy college dorm's Laundry webservers were slashdotted but someone was still able to come along later, patent the idea, and try to sue us.
- eftpotrm 16y ago... which is just another example of that which has long been implemented (and sometimes long been patented) still managing to attract protection. However, at least when there is a significant pre-established publication of the idea the 'try to' becomes rather more significant than the 'sue' and they can be got rid of rather more easily.
- Symmetry 16y agoYes, and really it wasn't much of a problem for us. The company still has a monopoly on the laundry-webserver business, though, and overcharges other people horribly.
- eftpotrm 16y agoHmm. If this sort of thing is happening with any regularity the other side of this argument is that there needs to be a clearer, simpler way for patents to be struck down. If it's not valid for one it's not valid for any and any other position is dangerously close to extortion.
- metageek 16y agoNo, I read it in Dilbert first. "You'd better click something or I'll have to ship you some books." -- Dogbert