Open source money
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| "...So far they have sold to more than 8,000 customers and have earned more
| than $200,000. You can check these figures in their website. If you really
| have an eye for design, can't you earn a small amount of Rs 5,000 a
| month?" “That's inspiring.
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http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEB20070902143326&Page=B&Headline=Open+source+money&Title=Business&Topic=0
Adblock Plus threatens the online revenue model
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| The Internet Explorer add-ons are not necessarily free and do not necessarily
| work as seamlessly as Adblock Plus working with the open-source Firefox
| browser.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/02/business/link.php
Released:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
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