Re: <none>
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Oct 1997 21:47:01 GMT
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;)
>
You seriously don't expect the courts to understand that, right? At
least here in the U.S., if you have a clue, the lawyers throw you off
the jury.
-hpa
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