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Comment Re:Were it so simple... (Score 1) 122

by BizidyDizidy on Friday December 07, 2007 @12:27PM (#21613519) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Software Development to the Masses

How do they matter when there is (virtually) no transmission?

Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing 823

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @07:28PM from the pure-evil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to New Scientist, Philips has filed a patent for technology to force viewers to watch the ads in a program. Basically they plan to add extra flags to the Multimedia Home Platform that would stop controls from working until the ads are finished." From the article: "Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be 'greatly resented by viewers' who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong. So it suggests the new system could throw up a warning on screen when it is enforcing advert viewing. The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts."

Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu? 234

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @01:04PM from the i'm-not-good-enough-for-you dept.

OSS_ilation writes "While much has been said about Novell or Red Hat as potential targets for Oracle this week, there are some in the Linux community who believe a different distro might deserve the attention of Larry Ellison. That distribution is Ubuntu, and analysts like Burton Group's Richard Monson-Haefel believed that it would be a better fit for Oracle, which is looking only for an OS and not for any of the baggage associated with Novell, like Netware. Ubuntu, with its huge community base and version 6.06 on the way, could be the perfect fit, he said."

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