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So, are you sure you want to beleieve that Apple Corporation is not fundamentally evil, like the rest of the corporations?
added on 26 Oct 2009
Earlier today a pending non-provisional utility patent application assigned to Apple Computer published. This application, US Patent Application 20090265214, is titled Advertisement in Operating System, and covers exactly what the title implies; namely an operating system that is capable of disp...
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So, are you sure you want to beleieve that Apple Corporation is not fundamentally evil, like the rest of the corporations?
posted to Greg Laden's Blog on 25 Oct 2009
Earlier today a pending non-provisional utility patent application assigned to Apple Computer published. This application, US Patent Application 20090265214, is titled Advertisement in Operating System, and covers exactly what the title implies; namely an operating system that is capable of disp...
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Apple's Ad-Based OS Patent Application: Not Evil.
posted to The Questionable Authority on 26 Oct 2009
A number of people (including another blogger here at ScienceBlogs) have weighed in on the recent revelation of a patent application that describes a way to integrate advertising into computer operating systems. The patent application covers both traditional personal computer operating systems a...
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Brother Mike Drinks the Kool Aid
posted to Greg Laden's Blog on 26 Oct 2009
My blogging brother Mike Dunford steps in to save poor old Apple Corporation from me and a few others who consider building corporate ads into an operating system to be evil. He's wrong, I'm right, but if you must go read his post and decide for yourself. Read the comments on this post...
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posted to The Questionable Authority on 27 Oct 2009
Yesterday, Greg Laden posted a short response to my post about the recently discovered Apple patent application for an ad-supported operating system. Some of the comments that people left on Greg's post raise issues that I want to respond to. Since I'm lazy, and writing something up in the softw...
