Subj : Re: Hazard Pointers w/o memory barrier.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Tue May 10 2005 02:58 pm

>I think I screwed up by publishing this instead of patenting it.
> People may not like patents but at least you can make money off
> of them as opposed to FOSS.  Definitely need to work on my
> habit of posting ideas on usenet without doing a patent feasibility
> study first.

I may be in a similar dilemma. I have come up with a generic algorithm that 
doesn't rely on OS support, and want to publish it but am very wary of doing 
so.

;(...

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