Re: determining architecture
Deryk Barker writes:
> Intel sued for coyright infringement...
No. They sued for _trademark_ infringement. Very different.
> ...but lost in court, the verdict being that you cannot copyright a
> number...
No one ever contended that you could. They claimed that calling any kind
of cpu a "anything 386" infringed their trademark on "Intel 80386" (or some
such mark). The courts ruled that numbers are similar to words such as
"of" and "the" and using one does not infringe your mark just because you
chose to use it to.
> ...you can, apparently, copyright an English phrase like "X inside"
No you can't. They registered a _trademark_.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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