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    From Chris M. Thomasson@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jun 4 22:47:53 2026
    Joe Seigh should still be pissed off?

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming.threads/c/8slBGARhQug/m/CclWCyh69NkJ

    ;^)


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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jun 4 22:54:00 2026
    On 6/4/2026 10:47 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Joe Seigh should still be pissed off?

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming.threads/c/8slBGARhQug/m/ CclWCyh69NkJ

    ;^)


    Link to the patent:

    https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060037026A1/en?oq=20060037026

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  • From jseigh@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jul 17 18:55:59 2026
    On 6/5/26 01:47, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Joe Seigh should still be pissed off?

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming.threads/c/8slBGARhQug/m/ CclWCyh69NkJ

    ;^)


    Nah, I'm inured to it by now. There's a complete lack of attribution
    in open software apart from self attribution. I'm waiting for some
    open source projects to get sued for patent infringement for something
    that's in the public domain but they can't use that as a defense since
    no one documented where the ideas originally came from. Probably has
    already happened.

    It does lessen the pressure to publish into the public domain if you
    are not actually being paid to do stuff like that. Plus I
    procrastinate somewhat so I am way behind on publishing non trivial
    stuff. Or even hint about it.

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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris M. Thomasson@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jul 17 23:46:40 2026
    On 7/17/2026 3:55 PM, jseigh wrote:
    On 6/5/26 01:47, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    Joe Seigh should still be pissed off?

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.programming.threads/c/8slBGARhQug/m/
    CclWCyh69NkJ

    ;^)


    Nah, I'm inured to it by now.ÿ There's a complete lack of attribution
    in open software apart from self attribution.ÿ I'm waiting for some
    open source projects to get sued for patent infringement for something
    that's in the public domain but they can't use that as a defense since
    no one documented where the ideas originally came from.ÿ Probably has
    already happened.

    It does lessen the pressure to publish into the public domain if you
    are not actually being paid to do stuff like that.ÿ Plus I
    procrastinate somewhat so I am way behind on publishing non trivial
    stuff.ÿ Or even hint about it.

    Yeah. But it basically is atomic_ptr! Iirc, their "single target" still
    uses double word! I have my word based collector I posted in the past.
    It uses similar differential ref count. My single word proxy collector.

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