Also, even if you are prepared to upgrade every year, you would like to do that in a time of the year that is convenient for your organization. Therefore it would be so much better if RH upped the time to say 18 months instead of just a year.
Another example is when Danish inventor Karl Krøyer in 1964 was denied a patent on an idea to raise sunken ships because of an earlier Donald Duck comic book story by Carl Barks. (This happened in 1964, and the story was first published in 1949.)
I guess there are lots of examples of prior art for this one. One of them is how "decoded time" in Common Lisp is interpreted, where the window depends on the current year:
However, if this integer is between 0 and 99, the "obvious" year is used; more precisely, that year is assumed that is equal to the integer modulo 100 and within fifty years of the current year (inclusive backwards and exclusive forwards).
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Also, even if you are prepared to upgrade every year, you would like to do that in a time of the year that is convenient for your organization. Therefore it would be so much better if RH upped the time to say 18 months instead of just a year.
You seem to assume that only one user will use the computer. That is true for many computers, but not
all, by a long shot.
Another example is when Danish inventor Karl Krøyer in 1964 was denied a patent on an idea to raise sunken ships because of an earlier Donald Duck comic book story by Carl Barks. (This happened in 1964, and the story was first published in 1949.)