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Exactly 1023 patents? Does Google do those jokes even in a legal context? (Maybe someone had to count them using only his fingers)
by mhd 15y ago
Exactly 1023 patents? Does Google do those jokes even in a legal context? (Maybe someone had to count them using only his fingers)
- vvnraman 15y ago1023 = 2^10 - 1. It would have taken all the 10 fingers.
- daniel-cussen 15y agoA lot of the time businesses don't know how to optimize certain things, and frequently prefer to choose big, round numbers. The only difference between them and Google is that regular businesses choose numbers that are simple to express in the decimal system and Google chooses numbers that are low-complexity in other ways, like the the square root of two or 1024.
- sgentle 15y agoHonestly, good on them. This mobile patent crap is so ludicrous and out of hand. I'm glad that even though Google has to play by the same stupid rules as everyone else, at least they get the chance to remind everyone "you know this is a big joke right?" on occasion. Christ, imagine how many jobs all of these patent cold war billions represent. Imagine how much time and energy is going into feeding a machine whose main outcome is stifling creativity and competition.