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ARC cache is only obvious after it’s been shown to you. Whether or not software patents are a good thing is an entirely separate question (one on which I suspe
by omginternets 3y ago
ARC cache is only obvious after it’s been shown to you.
Whether or not software patents are a good thing is an entirely separate question (one on which I suspect we agree, in fact) but software patents can and do contain actual non-obvious inventions.
- pas 3y agoARC is not completely obvious, sure, true, but it's a very very very hard stretch to call it worthy of 20 years of monopoly. It simply seems like a multi-tier cache (which it is, after all, it's 4 LRU duct taped together in a useful way). And, maybe there's nothing wrong with the 20 years, the problem is how hard much it costs to license it, how much the whole discovery process costs to the whole industry.
- omginternets 3y agoAgain, we're in agreement that software patents have many flaws, but the statement "only obvious things are patented" is plainly false.