Amazon's bullying tactics make my blood pressure rise. Alexa (owned by Amazon) has chosen to file a lawsuit against (source: may not be as cool as Alexaholic, but they are a significant improvement." Furthermore,
Well now that the improvements are complete and even though Geoffrey Mack changed his domain from Alexaholic to Statsaholic to avoide trademark issues, it seems Alexa has had enough of him and have filed a lawsuit to crush this enterprising web 2.0 developer. Alexa claims Statsaholic's "conduct has caused and will continue to cause damage to Alexa and an illicit gain of profit to Defendant, and is causing irreparable harm to Alexa for which there is no adequate remedy under the law."
Unbelievable! I salute Alan Graham for his well worded response to this backhanded move by Alexa:
"Excuse me? Little Ron Hornbaker…is causing giant Alexa irreparable harm? And the question that really begs to be asked is that why all of a sudden, over a year later, when Alexa had ample opportunity to address this issue, did they decide to do it now? The simple fact of the matter is that Ron Hornbaker built a better Alexa and as soon as it started to gain traction, and Alexa had already borrowed all the ideas it wanted from Alexaholic, they no longer needed it. Essentially, what Alexa wants from the lawsuit is to take ownership of the Alexaholic domain, stop Ron Hornbaker from accessing their site without written permission, damages which will go well into the hundreds of thousands, pay their legal fees, and crawl into a hole somewhere and never show his head again. ... Is this how we work together in this shiny new world of Web 2.0?"
Apparently Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and owner of Alexa was a bit flabbergasted when the Alexaholic dispute was raised by Tim O'Reilly during an interview in front of a crowd of Web 2.0 companies (the interview Related Articles and Sources on the Amazon (Alexa) vs. Alexaholic Story
Alexa Attempts to Crush Statsaholic
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