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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Architectural implications of locate mode I/O and channels Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 07:30:58 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 29 Message-ID: <87frslxg6l.fsf@localhost> References: <3d7df1c5113800b31f72d79005ae5897@www.novabbs.org> <457f62eb41e55887e4f71159a5ffdb2e@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:31:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dfb437f2c99c3bb7b99e72f457d88552"; logging-data="456986"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kSOZN56bR6YW/DEfRu4zxBnkvOsHof2c=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6STQeSmhFEzsBqK2QEUwIiB3b60= sha1:9suEXXzzqEnwVma8CqloDRSoTqA= Bytes: 2814 "Paul A. Clayton" writes: > In theory, non-practicing patent licensors seem to make sense, similar > to ARM not making chips, but when the cost and risk to the single > patent holder is disproportionately small, patent trolling can be > profitable. (I suspect only part of the disparity comes from not > practicing; the U.S. legal system has significant weaknesses and > actual expertise is not easily communicated. My father, who worked for > AT&T, mentioned a lawyer who repeated sued AT&T who settled out of > court because such was cheaper than defending even against a claim > without basis.) in 90s, there was semantic analysis of patents and found that something like 30% of "computer/technology" patents were filed in other categories using ambiguous wording ... "submarine" patents (unlikely to be found in normal patent search) ... waiting for somebody that was making lots of money that could be sued for patent infringement. other trivia: around turn of century was doing some security chip work for financial institution and was asked to work with patent boutique legal firm, eventually had 50 draft (all assigned) patents and the legal firm predicted that there would be over hundred before done ... some executive looked at the filing costs and directed all the claims be repackaged as nine patents. then the patent office came back and said they were getting tired of these humongous patents where the filing fee didn't even cover the cost of reading the patents ... and directed the claims be repackaged as at least a couple dozen paents. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970