Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:34:36 +0200 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: <none> |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Followup to: <19971014065429Z972054-289+1506@vger.rutgers.edu> > By author: <koenig@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > They couldn't trademark "386", or "486" because those are *NUMBERS*, > > > and the court ruled you can't own a number. However, "IA32" is > > > definitely *not* a number, and certainly could be trademarked. > > > > using base-19 (or higher) even "IA32" is just a number (127131 dec > > for base-19;)
Hm. This way one can get around any arbitrary text, claiming it's just a number using an obscure base (get the following set of numbers using base-25: "World Without Windows":]).
Andrej
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