Comment Channel surfing with one button? (Score 1) 267
Ah, yes... Patents for banner ads.
In my roamings for a free i-net provider (I'm cheap, so sue me), I ran across dotNow, who has professed freely (and quite proudly) to have notified "...Alta Vista, America Online, Microsoft, NetZero and others of software's pending patent rights to the methodology of ad-supported Internet access used in its dotNow! suite of free Internet services."
Pardon me, but how is it possible to patent free internet service? Both television and radio function on the same premise of free services paid for in part by advertising, so they are certainly not the first company to have this idea, and certainly not the first company to tailor advertisements to the the individual consumer (other mail and internet services have already done so). So what makes this company think it has any right to a patent?
Can you imagine how much television and radio would blow if the first stations had decided to patent the way they do business?
Can you say "The remote control only has one button"?
With a name like "Kinbote" how normal could I be?
In my roamings for a free i-net provider (I'm cheap, so sue me), I ran across dotNow, who has professed freely (and quite proudly) to have notified "...Alta Vista, America Online, Microsoft, NetZero and others of software's pending patent rights to the methodology of ad-supported Internet access used in its dotNow! suite of free Internet services."
Pardon me, but how is it possible to patent free internet service? Both television and radio function on the same premise of free services paid for in part by advertising, so they are certainly not the first company to have this idea, and certainly not the first company to tailor advertisements to the the individual consumer (other mail and internet services have already done so). So what makes this company think it has any right to a patent?
Can you imagine how much television and radio would blow if the first stations had decided to patent the way they do business?
Can you say "The remote control only has one button"?
With a name like "Kinbote" how normal could I be?
