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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 07:56 AM EDT |
Questioning:
Could Intel or other hardware makers, have a master patent
over uses of it's chips (covering all math derived from the
parameters of the computation ability of the chip), so that
it would require all software developers to get a license
from Intel (DMCA-like protection, in an almost DRM way, so
that there was no way around Intel's IP to use the chip)
where software developers (OS and applications), in order to
use the design of the chip (patent) to develop the software,
would need to adhere to Intel's IP control of the uses of
the chip?
Hmmm, could Intel have a kind of EULA, that would allow
their designs to be used, but only freely and if no patents
were allowed on software to run on their specific hardware?
If so, then could this also be true of other chip makers,
GPU, etc?
How can software be NOT math (that is the question)?
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