Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 23Jun2006 01:50, Keith G. Robertson-Turner <fedora-gmane.00002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Kevin Kofler wrote:
| >> 11. Sun is trying to patent Mathematics.
| >> See http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/coconut-environment/ under "Patent Issues".
| >
| > PS: Maybe providing the anchor would help. ;-)
| > http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/coconut-environment/#patents
| > Sorry.
|
| Good God! They can't be serious?
Shrug. Software patents. They are ALL based on patenting algorithms.
These may be a little more obviously "mathematics", but don't seem
fundamentally different.
My response exactly. It's not an attempt to "patent Mathematics".
It's an attempt to patent applications of mathematics to a process.
Different thing. In principle, no different from the LZW patent.
Mike
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