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Here is the thing. The word "partner" is legal velcro. Amazon does not want a judge to determine that you are a PARTNER of Amazon's in the legal sense of the
by dbcurtis 7y ago
Here is the thing. The word "partner" is legal velcro. Amazon does not want a judge to determine that you are a PARTNER of Amazon's in the legal sense of the word. Even calling it the "Amazon Partner Network" is profoundly stupid, IMHO.
Partner means a different thing in contract litigation than it does in casual English usage.
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoThen Amazon shouldn't call it the AWS Partner Network. They chose that name themselves.
- lonelappde 7y agoWhy don't Microsoft Lawyers know this? https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/ https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/ Nor Oracle? https://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html https://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html Nor Google? https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9028757?hl=en https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9028757?hl=en The actual reason is that Amazon doesn't want anyone making a buck of Amazon's name. They are ruthless about capturing all the value in a relationship. Amazon does things like require 1+yr free trials of enterprise software and charging for the privilege of not being under NDA.
- dbcurtis 7y agoGuess what! My wife is a lawyer at Oracle. And she knows. And guess what else? Marketing owns the wording of marketing collateral, and can ignore the advice of the lawyers, and then the lawyers get to clean up the resulting problems.
- resoluteteeth 7y agoBut Amazon is calling the other companies partners; they're just asking the other companies not to use that term. If Amazon was mainly worried that a judge would interpret partner in the legal sense, wouldn't it be more concerned about its own use of the word?