Bezos's 2000 open letter on patents: http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html Good sentiment, but it's twelve ye

Bezos's 2000 open letter on patents: http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html Good sentiment, but it's twelve years later and the only positive action we've seen from Amazon concerning patent reform is an offhand comment to a reporter. How's that prior art database coming along, for example? Forgive me for not getting too excited.