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so which is it? "patents" being used by trolls? or American Corporations protecting their investments? I remember when I realized why software patents are not

so which is it? "patents" being used by trolls? or American Corporations protecting their investments? I remember when I realized why software patents are not going away any time soon; it was the same thought that I had when I tried to consider the quantity (amount) of dollars represented as 'valuable assets' in IBM's finances; assets which are just software patents.

dathinab 3y ago
fighting a patent is quite expensive and hard and in case of proper patents (and many less proper) unlikely to succeed else many patent trolls wouldn't be able to earn so much money This is the reason why most times patents are not fought until someone gets sued even through at that point more things are at risk, like temporary restricted sales, so normally a precaution patent invalidation should be preferred by the company starting to sell products where they know someone is patent trolling. But it isn't, as it's too expensive. There probably had been cases of big companies using a "try to drown small company in lawsuits even if they are spurious" approach, but IMHO this is the wrong way to limit such power abuse (the right way is painful panelties and reparation if they are found to do so and reasonable fast court actions to stop this abuse until courts are settled).
- dathinab 3y ago
  I hope this pushes other platforms to provide some more memory channels, could be tricky for AMD due to them wanting to commit to AM5 and I'm not sure if you can retrofit it. Through then most consumer applications don't necessary need/profit much from the wider memory bandwidth as more bandwidth is harder to use then faster memory speed. And more channels in a "motherboard not on-die" setup is much more costly for everyone (motherboards + CPUs + end user) then for on die. So maybe new CPUs with some on-die memory with their own channels + 2 classical channels is more likely. But then more on-die L3 or L4 cache (e.g. X3D) is probably more useful then on-die RAM. Hm, it's fun how in some way apples CPUs mismatch most of the consumer marked, but then Apple PRO models don't sell to most of the consumer marked.
freejazz 3y ago
EFF can't tell you the difference because according to the EFF, there is no other kind of patent holder...
HPsquared 3y ago
You can also go a level deeper and consider what the dollars themselves are, and why those will not go away either.
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
  they'll become digital, like a cryptocoin. the push to cashless USD is here and won't be going away but what does the cashless evolution mean for wage based economy? I'm still thinking through this, but the future is catching up and it seems I will only have to wait some more before circumstances of life and the world force this upon the public; so I don't think I have to actually think through what this means... this will become the brave new society in which I'll die (assuming I survive the transition) also, let's keep in mind the dollars like the ones you refer too, which "wont' be going away" were re-invented around the 70s, during the nixon administration, when gold was thrown out of the equation completely. but this ain't about metallic elements
gorjusborg 3y ago
This is one of the problems with 'Corporations are people' and 'Money is free speech'. Once a revenue source is generated, there are now 'persons (corporations)' with very loud 'speech (money for lobbying)' that start attempting to influence law. Governments are a collection of people that are hopefully optimizing toward the benefit of the people. I don't see how patent trolls benefit anyone that doesn't draw a paycheck directly from it.

dathinab 3y ago

fighting a patent is quite expensive and hard and in case of proper patents (and many less proper) unlikely to succeed else many patent trolls wouldn't be able to earn so much money This is the reason why most times patents are not fought until someone gets sued even through at that point more things are at risk, like temporary restricted sales, so normally a precaution patent invalidation should be preferred by the company starting to sell products where they know someone is patent trolling. But it isn't, as it's too expensive. There probably had been cases of big companies using a "try to drown small company in lawsuits even if they are spurious" approach, but IMHO this is the wrong way to limit such power abuse (the right way is painful panelties and reparation if they are found to do so and reasonable fast court actions to stop this abuse until courts are settled).

dathinab 3y ago
I hope this pushes other platforms to provide some more memory channels, could be tricky for AMD due to them wanting to commit to AM5 and I'm not sure if you can retrofit it. Through then most consumer applications don't necessary need/profit much from the wider memory bandwidth as more bandwidth is harder to use then faster memory speed. And more channels in a "motherboard not on-die" setup is much more costly for everyone (motherboards + CPUs + end user) then for on die. So maybe new CPUs with some on-die memory with their own channels + 2 classical channels is more likely. But then more on-die L3 or L4 cache (e.g. X3D) is probably more useful then on-die RAM. Hm, it's fun how in some way apples CPUs mismatch most of the consumer marked, but then Apple PRO models don't sell to most of the consumer marked.

freejazz 3y ago

EFF can't tell you the difference because according to the EFF, there is no other kind of patent holder...

HPsquared 3y ago

You can also go a level deeper and consider what the dollars themselves are, and why those will not go away either.

BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
they'll become digital, like a cryptocoin. the push to cashless USD is here and won't be going away but what does the cashless evolution mean for wage based economy? I'm still thinking through this, but the future is catching up and it seems I will only have to wait some more before circumstances of life and the world force this upon the public; so I don't think I have to actually think through what this means... this will become the brave new society in which I'll die (assuming I survive the transition) also, let's keep in mind the dollars like the ones you refer too, which "wont' be going away" were re-invented around the 70s, during the nixon administration, when gold was thrown out of the equation completely. but this ain't about metallic elements

gorjusborg 3y ago

This is one of the problems with 'Corporations are people' and 'Money is free speech'. Once a revenue source is generated, there are now 'persons (corporations)' with very loud 'speech (money for lobbying)' that start attempting to influence law. Governments are a collection of people that are hopefully optimizing toward the benefit of the people. I don't see how patent trolls benefit anyone that doesn't draw a paycheck directly from it.