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  • nachokb
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    May 5, 2025 at 1:46 pm
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    #4008 |

    I’ll refrain from writing about the frustration of not having much public progress, mainly because it’s been asked time and again here in the forum and elsewhere, and I know you guys are the most affected by this. But there’s one thing that I think hasn’t been asked before.

    It’s been probably over a decade since the first patents have been filed. Patents having a limited lifespan and the project timeline being what it is leaving _relatively_ little time for commercialization before patent expiration… what’s your approach to this? Or maybe the meatier parts are still NYF?

    Or maybe I’m blowing things out of proportion…

  • Findecanor
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    May 10, 2025 at 1:55 pm
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    #4009

    I’ve too got the impression that there is a lot going on behind the scenes that they don’t want to tell us because it is NYF and they don’t want to file a patent too soon, because it would start ticking away.

    For example, I’ve got the impression that they are ditching the predicated fixed-width SIMD for something more alike scalable vector or even something more Cray-like.
    But I’m afraid that perhaps they are iterating a bit too much before they have even got their first product out the door.

    I have been working on a hobby software project that is low-level and I wanted to support the Mill. It has been frustrating when I’ve asked about details, I’ve bee told that the Wiki is outdated or that I can’t get the info because the details are NYF. Eventually, I’ve had to drop Mill support, which is sad because it had been inspired by the Mill in the first place.

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