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Amazon Sues Alexaholic

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the at-last-it's-time dept.

theodp writes "ZDNet reports that as Jeff Bezos tap-danced out of a cringe moment at Web 2.0 Expo prompted by Tim O'Reilly's questioning of why Amazon couldn't get along with Alexaholic (now Statsaholic), Amazon had already filed a lawsuit to legally spank the tiny company into oblivion."

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    amusing programming forum

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Anonymous is an expert programmer!

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  4. Re:I'm not surprised... by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Big companies need lawyers and they need to keep the lawyers busy. Otherwise, this happens:

    http://snuffleguppy.vox.com/library/post/more-comm ercial-stuff.html

    Oops, my bad - that was a link to YouTube-like stuff and was actually supposedly about bankers. My sound card is on the fritz, so I just assumed...