[LINK] More on OS advertising patents

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 10:23 +1100, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Kim Holburn wrote:
>>>  I seem to remember Eudora had a mode that effectively did  
>>> this.
>> and Google/Amazon and other Advertising
>> programs - which insert content into
>> webpages and presumeably Google Apps.
> 
> You are all missing the point. This is not an application advertising at
> you, or ads overlaid on other content delivered via an application. This
> is the *operating system* delivering ads. That is what's new in this
> idea.
> 

So, when we go to print, will we see
things like - the new * printer
delivers screen perfect color!

> On PCs, splash screens are about the closest we've come, though that is
> prior art of a sort. I wonder if other areas, like mobile phones, PDAs,
> MP3 players etc, might not show more prior art.
> 

Would you say implementing the 
advertising in the call to the application
is in the operating system or the 
application?

Marghanita
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