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2 points by kjson 3269 days ago | link | parent

what does this actually mean though... How can they expect EVERYONE in NLP to just stop using it.

3 points by yankov 3268 days ago | link

They don't though. They released word2vec under apache2 license. Google is just trying to protect itself from being sued by someone else.

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1 point by barabba 3261 days ago | link

The problem is that you can actually patent it.

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