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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by troyvit on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:12PM (#40003796)
AWS made 90.8 billion in 2023. I think a $525 million charge for using a smaller company's intellectual property reflects exactly what you're saying.

If IP was more important then the lawsuit probably would've gathered more than half a percent of Amazon's revenue for something that was '"essential" to the ability of Amazon's cloud-computing arm to "store and retrieve massive amounts of data."'

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Re:Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury ... by namlem on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:18PM (#40003861)
AWS didn't steal the technology. They re-invented it in a way that was similar to a patented technology. Imo this is a failure of the patent system. AWS should not have to pay anything in an ideal system.
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