Patently Obvious

I strongly suspect that if the truth ever comes out about the development of LV, it will have at least as much to do with the desire of the patent holders of certain aspects of its development to control its use and extract income from it, as it might have to do with employees milking the system for years on end designing new bells and whistles.

Alcor ain't talking, so far at least. Probably because they're too lazy and luddite to be interested in undertaking a project that might move right up front of the patent holder's faces, sticking their tongues out at them, or most certainly in one they would actually be willing to pay for the use of.

Kent ain't talking, so far at least. He's about the only corner we hear less from directly here than Alcor management/directors. I'm surprised Steve Harris hasn't chimed in - he usually can't resist, and he would be at least on paper a most appropriate voice from the Kent corner, being both in charge of CCR and a new director at SA. I didn't think we'd hear from Charles Platt, who said he was taking a leave from CF so I didn't bother to ask him about it, and whose words can often be taken as a communique from Kent but you always have to guess when. So far though since he has been back he has skirted around the subject of why the Kent group has not yet developed and is not yet using LV in standard practice, I suppose it is another one of those big secrets.