[Open-graphics] Patents

[Nicolas Boulay]

2006/10/25, Hamish <hamish at travellingkiwi.com>:
> 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.