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I know that people patent things for various reasons but would people truly expect the holder of that patent to litigate against another company using that meth
by scoggs 9y ago
I know that people patent things for various reasons but would people truly expect the holder of that patent to litigate against another company using that method to ensure "more true" randomness in whatever application they were using? I, personally, imagine the patent holder would be glad to see others using their method to ensure true randomness so long as they were using the technology for anything other than evil.
- larkeith 9y agoI'm not familiar enough with the management of Silicon Graphics to say if they specifically would be likely to litigate, but I doubt CloudFlare would take the risk on an unexpired patent - management changes, and plenty of companies enforce patents that could do much more good than strengthening cryptography in the hunt for profit (see: the medical industry).
- theoh 9y agoWhat's special about sources of randomness? Would you have the same intuition about a patented process for creating physical objects?
- Crontab 9y agoIn today's world, yes, I would expect a patent holder to sue.
- code_duck 9y agoIt’s a useful technology that they spent the time and money to patent. There’s no reason to assume anything about the intent of the patent holders.
- mygo 9y agoWell, I’d expect the patent-holder to want to make money.