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To be filed under, now I have seen and heard it all...

Here a letter from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on how

"it's possible that the current rules governing business method and software patents could end up harming all of us." Really? Jeff?

Today, among the patents awarded to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was one for his invention of Error Processing Methods for:

Providing Responsive Content to a User When a Page Load Error Occurs,

which covers displaying alternate web pages in response to HTTP 404 page-not-found errors.

The Nattering One muses... The Verizon & Sprint "patents" which were settled with poor sweet little Vonage were not bad enough.

What imbeciles we must have working in our patent offices. The whole patent system needs an enema...

There is nothing innovative about setting up a server to redirect for page not found errors...

nor is there anything "customized", since the software used to perform these functions is open source code.

Interesting Codicil: It is reported that Amazon was prepared to sue everyone on the planet, but they couldn't find their own websites...