alt Hacker NewsPatents only last 20 years.
If you build your architecture on ideas that are documented to be older than twenty years, it greatly reduces the risk that a patent holder comes from nowhere: even if they did have the patent, it would have expired.
Patents only last 20 years.
If you build your architecture on ideas that are documented to be older than twenty years, it greatly reduces the risk that a patent holder comes from nowhere: even if they did have the patent, it would have expired.
How quickly does the industry move? Would there be any value in a 2006-era instruction set? How would you even start making sure you didn’t infringe on any patents that came after 2006?