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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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