I'd love to try implementing C4 or Metronome or Staccato, and I have some interesting applications for them too. The problem is all this development is sponsore

I'd love to try implementing C4 or Metronome or Staccato, and I have some interesting applications for them too. The problem is all this development is sponsored by Azul, Microsoft, and IBM. All the Bacon papers have corresponding IBM patents, all the Petrank papers have corresponding Microsoft patents. It sucks. Even if I come up with something new, it'll look like a slight variant on something someone else has done and I don't want to get sued!