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<h2>Amazon Letter from Nat</h2> |
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<p><i>This is a letter from Nat Friedman regarding the Amazon Boycott. |
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boycott</a> and support us by making a link from your own home |
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:26:30 -0500 (EST)<br /> |
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From: Nat Friedman <nat@nat.org><br /> |
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To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org><br /> |
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Subject: Amazon Boycott Success!<br /> |
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Hello Richard, |
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It seems that your efforts to build resistance to Amazon's |
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ludicrous one-click patent are really paying off! My father is a |
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stock broker, and tonight he showed me a news item which came over his |
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company's internal wire service describing (fairly accurately) the |
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boycott and your roll in it. Apparently it has been widely |
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distributed among the brokerage firms, and AMZN was down 7 points |
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today on the news (at least, there was no other readily-apparent |
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reason for the downturn). |
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Perhaps now that Amazon is getting hit in the pocketbook, they'll |
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pay more attention. |
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Congratulations! Keep it up. |
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As always, best wishes,<br /> |
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