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> 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



> 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.


> 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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