RE: [mv] Amazon (Patent) US5960411: Method and system for placingapurchase order via a communications

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@booktraders.com>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Ryan Hertz wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******
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> At 04:22 PM 12/16/1999 , you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk 
> ><birgitt@booktraders.com>     ******
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> [snip]
> 
> >But I really would like to know when the first one-click checkout
> >code was written.
> 
>          Hmm, maybe CompuServe, or even further back...  My bank had a 
> service where I could press a button on the phone to order new checks.  Is 
> that a click?  Oh well, all I know for sure is that Microsoft invented GUI 
> and Al Gore invented the Internet.  :-)

:-) 

I meant open source code, first shopping cart one-click checkout
released under GPL license. I ask, can you patent your code if GPL code
doing the same thing is already released into the public domain ?

Birgitt Funk