1.	Amazon is betting that Internet users don't care. But the eToys vs eToy issue proves otherwise. When an Internet company moves too aggressively they'll eventually have to listen to their customers. The issue for customers is fairly simple. If Amazon has no competition, prices are sure to go up, and further, the competitive environment of the Web will die.
2.	Please think about this. The users of the Internet have been beneficiaries of an unfettered competitive environment. As an industry we are famous for moving quickly, partially because the technology is so exciting, and also because the rewards are so huge. We're in a very sweet spot, we *can* move quickly because we invested and it worked. The Web is going places, as long as companies like Amazon are not allowed to own the growth.
3.	In a Q&A session yesterday at Stanford, an Amazon shareholder said "I own 100 shares of Amazon.Com, and I wonder if you can tell me what it is exactly that I own." Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said that she owned "a piece of the future."
4.	This is the bug. Let's fix it.