<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Lee Hughes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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just to quote<br><br>'Google has patents on the built-in battery design, "but I think we'd be willing to license them to vendors," Hoelzle said.
'<br><br>wow, you put a battery in a machine, and bingo, no else can run a computer of<br>a f**king battery.<br><br>this world is f**king crazy.... did IQ's just drop around here?<br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote>
<div><br> I agree, you would think it would come under prior art. Google also patented the datacenter in a shipping container:<br><br><a href="http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/10/google-patents-datacenter-in-a-shipping-container-ignores-suns-blackbox.ars">http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/10/google-patents-datacenter-in-a-shipping-container-ignores-suns-blackbox.ars</a><br>
<br>This article is from the site arstechnica which sums up everything nicely.<br><br>Gordon<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br>we've been running atx motherboards of batteries for years, way before<br>patentzilla came along.<br><br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">Lee</font><div class="im"><br><br><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table>_______________________________________________<br>
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