Re: [PHP4BETA] Professional PHP by Schumann

Sascha Schumann wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 06:04:05PM -0500, Ken Leshner wrote: > > What about Stallman's Amazon boycott? > > All Stallman can achieve with this campaign is that one > lawsuit will be dropped. It won't cause the US patent office > to reorganize. And I even doubt that he will reach the first > target. Face it, most of Amazon's customers don't even know > who Stallman is, the impact of the action will be negligible > for Amazon. Well everyone on these two lists are now aware of the issue, that is better than not so. Aside from any Stallman'isms, I'm totally against some jerk corporate entity denying me from using a one-click payment system for any of my web sites that I may develop in the future. This is an obnoxious restriction on my freedoms so I, for one, will do anything to lodge a protest anyway I can. The fear is that if "they" get away with this then what other plainly stupid software restrictions will become common for the benefit of a few and at the expense of the rest of us ? In fact if you endorse Amazon then I can't see myself buying your book. --markc