[ODE] Quickstep and patents

[Beau Albiston]

I believe they are referring to LCP solvers in the context of being 
implemented on dedicated hardware.

-Beau

metanet software wrote:
> hi,
> I'm working on a physics solver, and have recently discovered that 
> several well-known techniques are in fact patented. I'm eager to 
> opensource my project, however doing so will make it obvious what 
> methods i'm using, and one of them is definitely patented.
>
> From discussion on the Bullet forums, it appears that Ageia holds a 
> patent related to ODE's quickstep solver: 
> http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7079145-claims.html
>
> Has there been any trouble with these patents and ODE? I'm thinking 
> specifically about the various big-budget commercial games released 
> with ODE.. did Ageia extract any sort of licensing/blackmail fees from 
> the developers?
>
> I'm just trying to get a sense of whether Ageia actually enforces 
> these ridiculous patents or they're just there to make them look good 
> in stockholders' eyes.
>
> thanks,
> raigan
>
>
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