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Saudi Claims He Invented e-Commerce, Intends to Sue Firms Which Use It
Al Arabiya ^ | Friday, 27 May 2016

Posted on 05/28/2016 11:38:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A Saudi man who claims he invented the concept of e-commerce during the early days of the internet says that he is talks with big firms who wish to avoid litigation for stealing his world-changing idea.

“There are now undergoing negotiations with big companies inside [the kingdom] and abroad to find a solution without opting to head to international judiciary,” Faisal bin Fahd al-Osaimi told the local Saudi daily Okaz.

Osaimi said he presented the concept of e-commerce to the late King Fahd in 1991, the same year the internet was born.

The late king reportedly referred him to the trade ministry and the King Abdul Aziz City of Technology, a scientific organization. But Osaimi says he did not get any feedback from them.

When asked why he kept quiet all this years over what he alleges to be his world-changing idea, he said: “I previously made several press interviews but I think that it is the time now for me to appear stronger than before.”

If his claims are accepted, Osaimi could be eligible for massive royalties.

The brainchild of British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee – the internet became available to the public in August 1991.

A quarter of a century later, e-commerce websites, including Amazon, Alibaba, and Ebay, lead a multi-trillion dollar industry.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: apple; applestore; internet; itunes; patenttroll; saudiarabia; web
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To: nickcarraway

Islam is a mental disease.
People with mental diseases are incapable of coherent thought processes.

Deport illegals!
Expel muslims!


41 posted on 05/28/2016 2:32:32 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: nickcarraway

The Islamos did issue a fat-waa stating that because telephones exist in islamoland and because phone books and phone manuals have been written in islamotalk, then telephones are an islamo invention.

Actually, if you go back and really look at every single issue of supposed islamo invention, you’ll find it most likely to be captured tech from a conquered people.


42 posted on 05/28/2016 3:05:10 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Dallas59

So Dallas, are you going to add Faisal bin Fahd al-Osaimi’s name between Tim Berners-Lee and Book Stacks Unlimited in Cleveland? /s


43 posted on 05/28/2016 3:25:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (Clinton was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH in a SEXUAL HARASSMENT case NOT for an affair.)
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To: nickcarraway

I was the first ever to mention the word “Apple” and before that the word “Software” and before that the word “Amazon” and before that the word “Facebook” and before that “Google”

Sorry folks... I own the World
(as I was also the first to mention “Lawyer” and right after that “Lawsuit” ... The “An Eye for an Eye” Prosecution was one of my best Cases Ever!
It was just before that I Invented BEER! (You can Thank me later by forgiving me for that whole Lawyer / Lawsuit thingy)


44 posted on 05/28/2016 7:42:57 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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