{"id":6809,"date":"2009-10-24T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/24\/so-are-you-sure-you-want-to-be\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:26:53","slug":"so-are-you-sure-you-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/so-are-you-sure-you-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"So, are you sure you want to beleieve that Apple Corporation is not fundamentally evil, like the rest of the corporations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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 displaying a variety of advertisements to users. You are likely to have heard of the first listed inventor, Steven Jobs, the CEO and co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. While it is difficult to know the purpose and strategy behind a patent application, the attorneys at Fish &#038; Richardson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who drafted and filed the patent application certainly did a very good job describing just about every conceivable feature and alternative that could coincide with the displaying of advertisements to users of an operating system. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2009\/10\/22\/jobs-and-apple-seek-patent-on-operating-system-advertising\/id=6761\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could never happen in the OpenSource world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 displaying a variety of advertisements to users. You are likely to have heard of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/so-are-you-sure-you-want-to-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So, are you sure you want to beleieve that Apple Corporation is not fundamentally evil, like the rest of the corporations?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1LP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}