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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by wpietri on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:28PM (#15047591)
I don't think it's a quibble. I think it's a point about what even makes sense to be patentable. The expiration of the patent frees up exactly zero technology.
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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by FeepingCreature on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:20PM (#15048512)
To clarify, it's not that the special technology behind it doesn't get freed, it's that there is no special technology behind it.
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