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Curing the Problem of Software Patents, by Michael Risch | 1347 comments | Create New Account
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Curing the Problem of Software Patents, by Michael Risch
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 07:50 PM EDT
Well, let's say I buy a chip. It's a simple chip. It advertises itself, not as
a device for manipulating voltages, but as a TTL NAND chip. Now we're
manipulating symbols, not just voltages.

Same thing when I get to an FPGA. My tools that let me program the thing do so
in terms of logic gates, not in terms of voltages.

I think your argument fails on this point.

MSS2

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Curing the Problem of Software Patents, by Michael Risch
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:04 AM EDT
But I am sure we can find printed material which is practically useful, like a dictionary or a map.
I was always told that if I didn't know how to spel a werd I shuld look it up in a dicshonery; but how can I look it up if I can't spel it in the first place? Thus dicshonerys must be useless....unless it's a big one in which case it can be used to prop open a door - very practical...

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