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| Authored by: PolR on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 02:54 PM EDT |
If the message in the signal, or
the software, does something when
you put it in a machine,
then the whole thing would be a process for achieving
some end
- for doing something. Unless, as I've noted, it's just
pure
calculation that's just pushing bits around.
How do you tell
the difference? Computers do nothing but push bits around. The computer by
itself doesn't achieve any end but pushing bits around.
Bits may have
meaning, but computers do nothing with meaning. Whether or not bits have
meaning, they are the same bits and they are pushed around the same way. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 06:06 PM EDT |
But it's a trivial mathematical proof that the source code and the executable
are THE SAME THING.
So if the source code doesn't do anything (which is true) then the executable
doesn't do anything either (which is also true, it's the ALU and the computer
peripherals which MAY do something).
So if the source does nothing, and the executable does nothing, how can you
patent it?
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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