From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>
To: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] About ASICBoost
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 23:27:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRh1oawCxSnGExyfxjD5fW8L78HtmAxgiNoTqa_cRQu_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57F195EC.30009@mattcorallo.com>
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo•com> wrote:
> Even if the Bitcoin Foundation decided to recklessly disregard Bitcoin's
> future centralization, I'm not sure going to them and asking them to pay
> a license fee in order to keep from holding the rest of the Bitcoin
> mining community hostage counts as "regard for centralization pressure".
> It also doesn't excuse the lack of transparent licensing being available
> today, or the lack of transparency when discussing it in public after
> the patent had been filed.
We can't change the past (besides, would you want BCF to have owned
that patent? I didn't)-- only the future.
To do so requires collaboration, so lets focus on that.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-02 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-02 17:13 Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-02 19:36 ` Btc Drak
2016-10-02 22:25 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-02 22:56 ` Timo Hanke
2016-10-02 22:51 ` Matt Corallo
[not found] ` <CAAS2fgSwgdvb9gWc8A2SPhJAL36Ss4EY_DTtc6sQj=G3X66OWA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-02 22:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-10-02 23:19 ` Matt Corallo
2016-10-02 23:27 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
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