The Amazon Patent Paradox Plan

So, Richard Stallman has called for an Amazon.com boycott and the masses are responding!

But, wait a minute...doesn't Amazon.com lose money on a massive scale? Indeed, don't they lose money with each sale? Especially when the sales are to the web-savvy who typically try to benefit some affiliate?

Only a Time Man Of The Year could come up with a plan so devious...and so effective: Patent some trivial, obvious, and essential web feature. Get the web movers and shakers to condemn it, and, eventually, call for a boycott. Watch your red ink drain away as you lose customers.

Downsizing for the Internet Age.

Meanwhile, Wall Street, convinced by all the dire predictions of Amazon's stranglehold on e-commerce, drives Amazon's share price into the stratosphere (er...into the mesosphere).