patents and now copyrighst! yikes! o_O
thanks to DreamWalker, who sent me the link, we may get to the point that we can’t use the term “Cloud Computing” because Dell is trying to copyright it
this is like when Nintendo was applying for copyrights to phrases like
It’s on like Donkey Kong!
so if you were thinking of using the words “Cloud Computing” in a domain name or as a name for your service, better think twice! =(
oh well, there goes yet another way to stifle creativity!
Dell's coming! hurry, take down all the clouds!
a long time ago autodesk was trying to trademark “cyberspace”. that was unsuccessful of course. in dell case, they are going up against some heavy weights. dell was built by ibm hardware and microsoft software. but a company can get too big and some person get the idea to keep an idea for themselves.
but it doesnt matter anyway. someone will come up with another word/phrase anyway. or the technology will go away replaced by another one.
remember minix? few people do. but minix grew into something else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
bristle
12 Aug 11 at 1:25 pm
Okay, so how about we call it Heavenly Heuristics? Vapour Virtuality? Fluffy Logic? Data Fog?
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 1:41 pm
i like data fog. i will trademark it this afternoon.
bristle
12 Aug 11 at 1:44 pm
hmm, i think “data fog” is a medical term because i take pills to deal with that =D
*or is that a quebec thing – data frog?*
Ener Hax
12 Aug 11 at 2:42 pm
and would you know it — fog is already in
http://larrywright.me/blog/articles/221-backing-up-your-data-with-fog
bristle
12 Aug 11 at 2:58 pm
I guess Fluffy Logic is too RL.
I wonder if there’s a Digital Dewpoint. If so, when it’s reached, do we get Computing Condensation? What happens when those Computing Clouds run up against Usage Peaks? Does it rain Bits or Bytes? Are we on our way to creating a whole system of virtual weather? AthlonStorms? Heuri-canes?
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 4:36 pm
Turing-nadoes?
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 4:38 pm
OMG!!
Flash Floods!
*rofl*
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 4:40 pm
i has all your base.
http://goo.gl/bDyqB
no mess with me cloud.
DreamWalker McCallister
12 Aug 11 at 5:16 pm
ceiling cat IS cloud computing!
this is nefarious . . .
Ener Hax
12 Aug 11 at 6:32 pm
You *did* notice the article is 3 years old, didn’t you – published 4th August 2008…
Also, Agam Shah completely mangled “copyright” and “Trademark” – the two are not the same, yet he uses both interchangeably in the article heading & strapline.
Inara Pey
12 Aug 11 at 8:03 pm
2008? I know a patent takes 4 to 5 years, but how long does a copyright application take?
…
Maybe I’ll move to an Adobe hut and sit by the Corel sea
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 8:26 pm
And apparently Apple is suing Google’s Android manufacturers (HTC & Samsung) over phone patents.
Excerpt (08 August 2011):
“Some patents are arguably ridiculous, too; for example, Apple has a patent for being able to call numbers cited in emails. All of the chaos and preceived absurdity of patent law is on display in the recent litgation over Google Android. And it’s just getting started.”
Read the Article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390536,00.asp
In a flip-flop earlier this year, Apple was sued over their phones:
http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/21/apple-rim-motorola-sued-for-patent-infringement/
And back in July, Samsung tried to patent a transparent PIXEL:
http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2011/07/samsung-applies-for-transparent-pixel.html
PS: yes, the Dell/cloud patent attempt was a couple years back… and Dell lost! Apple has lost a few patent attempts as well, but they keep trying to patent every particle in the universe. I’m waiting for them to file for a patent on the iAir that we breathe.
Wanna waste a few hours? Google “silly patents”
Or skip straight to the one from 1965 that patents “facilitating the birth of a child with centrifugal force:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3216423.pdf
DreamWalker McCallister
12 Aug 11 at 9:31 pm
Ya know, Nintendo just patented the concept “Massively Single-player” as if the concept didn’t already exist to some degree… but still – seriously.
redsolarmoon
12 Aug 11 at 10:33 pm
i thought i was the only that did “massively single-player” because i couldnt find anyone else to play with me.
as a fluffy logic is concern that will be a big AI topic in the year 2015. better grab is now.
bristle
12 Aug 11 at 10:57 pm
Fluffy logic is already here. Ever try to follow the reasoning used by politicians?
Sarge Misfit
12 Aug 11 at 11:14 pm
i thought it was “floppy logicz’ where 4 gates go in and where 4 gates go in and where 4 gates go in and where 4 gates go in …
bristle
13 Aug 11 at 12:39 am
The American constitution should be changed in this modern age. The founding fathers wrote “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
Now it should read, “Life, Monopoly and the pursuit of patents”
Gaga
13 Aug 11 at 7:44 am