andy@cayuga.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) (10/05/88)
In article <1663@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes: > Yes. I look at it from this perspective: patents create an unfair > monopoly (on sometimes trivial ideas, eg the Sun MMU Ras/Cas > timing). I've heard that the idea was actually used in products before Andy B. claims to have invented it. (The patent office only quibbles over whether the idea is protectable by patents - they make no guarantees of priority and rely on court cases to establish it.) Does anyone pay royalties on this patent? If not, that patent is merely a nice piece of paper on Andy B's wall. -andy UUCP: {arpa gateways, decwrl, uunet, rutgers}!polya.stanford.edu!andy ARPA: andy@polya.stanford.edu (415) 329-1718/723-3088 home/cubicle