Why? It all started with a patent. In 1997 Amazon introduced a feature on its web site called 1-Click shopping. The idea was that the site would remember your address and billing information from prior purchases so that you wouldn't have to re-enter them every time you bought something. It was a pretty good idea, good enough that Amazon applied for, and received, a patent on it. MORE >>
Boycott Amazon?
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Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is indisputably the
man of the moment around the offices of TIME
magazine what with him being our Man of the
Year and all but it's important for us to remind
ourselves that not everybody is quite so enamored
of him. Take Richard Stallman, for example.
Stallman, a top-flight computer programmer and a
prominent spokesman for the open source
movement, is calling for a boycott of
Amazon.com.