On: Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem

[DoofusOfDeath]

So far. That statement used to be true of U.S. copyrights as well.

[dekhn → DoofusOfDeath]

I don't think this is going to change any time soon. the last time patent lifetime was changed, it was to make it consistent with the rest of the world (20 years). It's unlikely we (US) would change that; it would be a huge international battle for something that people have more or less accepted.