Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > 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.
I have never said I think the LZW patent is OK! In fact I don't. Software
patents suck.
Kevin Kofler
