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The fact that they don't use it has nothing to do with the availability of the patented process. I don't think Amazon will just say : "You guys can have it, we don't use it anyway"

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I think their point was that it's not a good feature if even the owner doesn't use it. So there's no reason to copy it regardless of patent status.

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