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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by rhizome on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:11PM (#23901398)
> I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought "that's awesome".

To be sure (and for the sake of internet rando completenessism), it does look like CF waited until the original SGI patent on the technique ran out. :)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by WarOnPrivacy on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:37PM (#23903013)
> it does look like CF waited until the original SGI patent on the technique ran out.

As ever, innovation was brick-walled until IP got out of the way.

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Re:Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure... by mavelikara on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:46PM (#23903064)
> To be sure (and for the sake of internet rando completenessism), it does look like CF waited until the original SGI patent on the technique ran out. :)

That's right. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860658

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