I kinda like this (Score 1)

I know it makes me a sick puppy, OTOH, I've had a problem with the whole concept of patenting math and logic for a while. It might be cool if we /. folks could gather together, patent a bunch of essentials the PTO is too inept to understand, and then jump all over some big guys when they infringe. Not to make money, but simply to make the big dogs spend their money to fix this obviously broken system.

When Amazon has the patent the little guy gets screwed. When the little guy has the patent, Amazon (or ebay) might have more motivation to fix an obviously broken system, as it isn't operating to their benefit anymore.