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Patent hassles for OpenMokoPatent hassles for OpenMokoPosted Nov 17, 2008 6:20 UTC (Mon) by ctg (subscriber, #3459)In reply to: Patent hassles for OpenMoko by oever Parent article: Patent hassles for OpenMoko
No, it's just a figure of speech. A bit like the idiom "I needed this like a hole in the head". Meaning that "need == 0".
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Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 16:01 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
+1
However, I have to say I read the sentence twice, thinking Jon had posted the story before it was complete, before I realized it was meant to be read that way...
Didn't need that hassle Posted Nov 17, 2008 21:27 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] It was meant to be read that way. However, if I would hold off on posting news for, say, 24 hours after flying across an ocean, I might be more successful in meaning to say things that create less confusion among my readers... I'll work on that.
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 21, 2008 19:33 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] No, it's just a figure of speech. A bit like the idiom "I needed this like a hole in the head". Meaning that "need == 0". Actually, it's a rhetorical way of saying "need < 0," as is clear from the hole in the head analogy. The point is that the project needs, to some extent, not to have this hassle.
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