2006/10/25, Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
But I"m hoping that SGI lose... It's a bad bad patent from what I can see of it. Where's the invention in it? They didn't invent a framebuffer. They didn't invent floating point. They took two existing concepts & glued them together... Or am I missing something?
It look like most of "patent" are of this kind. XOR is not patented but XOR is patented if you use it for displaying a mouse on a black and white screen. Average + image compression -> patented load/store instruction + unaligned data -> patented I think it could be possible to write a automatic patent generator that take 2 concepts, link them together. Then wait 2 to 5 years, and "ask" royalties to big healty compagny. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
