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A lot of Windows users probably know about OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/) since this is a similar service, I totally understand the naming choice here.


Ironically OneDrive used to be SkyDrive until Sky sued them. I guess everyone's switching to numbers because words are all trademarked, apart from the phoneme strings generated by the pharma industry.


When Porsche was releasing the 911 back in the 60s, Porsche wanted to name it “901”. Except Peugeot had a trademark on three-digit model numbers with a zero in the middle...


how could you trademark 0s in the middle? All 3 digits one maybe? that would be 9 * 9 = 81 separate trademarks. Seems like it's too comprehensive.

92818181818 0 1. Probably didn't get that, eh!


how could you trademark 0s in the middle?

By talking to the French patent office, circa 1950s, apparently. I don't know what you're on about with the rest, but I'm just parroting what's well-documented, you're welcome to go look it up.


I figured you had to trademark specific numbers, not a regular expression "[0-9]+ 0 [0-9]+", which is how I'd guess it would work in the US, vs enumerating all the numbers in separate trademarks (patent #1 (100), patent #2 (101), ... (909)).


They should follow the smartphone industry and just use arbitrary algebra expressions. I'm enjoying my OnePlus 5T solve when T = 3.


Google One + Google Drive? There's no way that nomenclature will ever be confused with OneDrive... /s




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