[TUHS] Re: ATC'25 is the last ATC?

[Alan Coopersmith via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

On 5/14/25 07:54, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> It's a lot more than that, though.  I was at IBM at that time, and at
>> IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a
>> conference had gotten eliminated.  It was very clear that as far as
>> IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.
>> If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus.  If you submit
>> to any conference --- you wouldn't.
> 
> That's wild.  To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus
> for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job.

I started at Sun after you left, and don't know when they started but
patent bonuses were common in the 2000's at Sun.  They paid up to
$2000/person, with a max of $6000/team, when a patent was filed.
(Based on a 2004 slide deck encouraging us to file more patents,
I never got one to verify. They did emphasize they wanted patents for
defensive reasons, including cross-licensing deals, not to attack other
companies.)

	-alan-