[dundee] Google's Secret Servers Revealed

[gordon dunlop]

2009/4/7 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>

> just to quote
>
> 'Google has patents on the built-in battery design, "but I think we'd be
> willing to license them to vendors," Hoelzle said. '
>
> wow, you put a battery in a machine, and bingo, no else can run a computer
> of
> a f**king battery.
>
> this world is f**king crazy.... did IQ's just drop around here?
>

 I agree, you would think it would come under prior art. Google also
patented the datacenter in a shipping container:

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/10/google-patents-datacenter-in-a-shipping-container-ignores-suns-blackbox.ars

This  article is from the site arstechnica which sums up everything nicely.

Gordon


> we've been running atx motherboards of batteries for years, way before
> patentzilla came along.
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
>
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