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This is such a silly lawsuit. Nexus is a generic word, long used by geeks to describe anything vaguely cool with a centralized component. http://en.wikipedia.o

by seldo 17y ago

This is such a silly lawsuit. Nexus is a generic word, long used by geeks to describe anything vaguely cool with a centralized component. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus There are 4 magazines, 2 video games and at least 5 different pieces of software (the very first version of WWW, written by Tim Berners-Lee, was called Nexus). There are also 5 bands and another 5 albums called Nexus.

mechanical_fish 17y ago
It isn't a lawsuit. Just a non-lawyer shooting her mouth off. One doubts that it will ever become a lawsuit, since there's little sense in throwing away legal fees. There isn't even a first approximation to a case here.
mreid 17y ago
I largely agree that it is a silly lawsuit but, to play devil's advocate for a second, there are a few factors that make it slightly less cut and dried. Firstly, Google's phone is the Nexus One while the androids' model in "Bladerunner"/"Do Androids Dream..." was Nexus Six - presumably the last in a series beginning with something like Nexus One. Secondly, how come the "Droid" has to mention George Lucas's claim to the term but the "Nexus One" does not need to refer to PKD? Taking off my devil's advocate hat, I think that the name "Nexus One" was clearly inspired by Bladerunner (engineers/nerds working on a platform called "Android" was always going to lead to lots of robotic cultural references) but that does not mean the estate of PKD should be able to make a buck from it. The use of "Nexus One" in this way should be a sign that "Bladerunner" has become an important cultural touchstone, at least in tech circles.
- wglb 17y ago
  One difference is that Starwars franchise is very heavily into merchandising. PKD is certainly not.
- rwhitman 17y ago
  Ok but the word "Droid" was indeed coined in Star Wars, whereas "Nexus One" was never coined anywhere, since the Nexus-1 model was never mentioned in the book or the movie. Its just a vague allusion
keefe 17y ago
it's also a WoW instance
- chancho 17y ago
  And a Protoss probe factory. And a place Malcolm McDowell really wants to get to.

by seldo 17y ago

mechanical_fish 17y ago

It isn't a lawsuit. Just a non-lawyer shooting her mouth off. One doubts that it will ever become a lawsuit, since there's little sense in throwing away legal fees. There isn't even a first approximation to a case here.

mreid 17y ago

I largely agree that it is a silly lawsuit but, to play devil's advocate for a second, there are a few factors that make it slightly less cut and dried. Firstly, Google's phone is the Nexus One while the androids' model in "Bladerunner"/"Do Androids Dream..." was Nexus Six - presumably the last in a series beginning with something like Nexus One. Secondly, how come the "Droid" has to mention George Lucas's claim to the term but the "Nexus One" does not need to refer to PKD? Taking off my devil's advocate hat, I think that the name "Nexus One" was clearly inspired by Bladerunner (engineers/nerds working on a platform called "Android" was always going to lead to lots of robotic cultural references) but that does not mean the estate of PKD should be able to make a buck from it. The use of "Nexus One" in this way should be a sign that "Bladerunner" has become an important cultural touchstone, at least in tech circles.

wglb 17y ago
One difference is that Starwars franchise is very heavily into merchandising. PKD is certainly not.
rwhitman 17y ago
Ok but the word "Droid" was indeed coined in Star Wars, whereas "Nexus One" was never coined anywhere, since the Nexus-1 model was never mentioned in the book or the movie. Its just a vague allusion

keefe 17y ago

it's also a WoW instance

chancho 17y ago
And a Protoss probe factory. And a place Malcolm McDowell really wants to get to.