[Patents] Patent on online advertising.

[fermigier sf@fermigier.com]

I only saw this one today:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/07/1656216

``CNET Patents Banner Advertising Networks''

Leads to:
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6073241'.WKU.&OS=PN/6073241&RS=PN/6073241

``Apparatus and method for tracking world wide web browser requests across
distinct domains using persistent client-side state''

A list of other controversial Web patents:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/patent_list

        S.

PS: we reached 2000 the signatures mark on petition.eurolinux.org, despite
some networking problems (we're suspecting some kind of DoS attack, but
we don't have evidences supporting this theory), that caused us a lot of
headeache yesterday. Thanks to everyone who supported us, but it's far
from over. In fact, it's just the beginning of the campaign.

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non french-speaking readers (I do not apologize for Mr Breese, though: 
he was warned numerous times that he was not supposed to post in french).

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