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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 24 2012 @ 02:54 PM EST |
Well... there are resources as you mention, lots of those aren't algorithms at
all (look at an android layout for instance).
There are strings and things like that that you print out and don't manipulate
There are long license agreements (:D)
Hmm, no inventions here, just copyrightable things...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Saturday, November 24 2012 @ 04:31 PM EST |
And since software consists of data and algorithims, both of which are not
patentable on their own, combining them does not suddenly make it patentable.
Period. End of discussion.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- There is? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 24 2012 @ 04:47 PM EST
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| Authored by: jbb on Saturday, November 24 2012 @ 05:07 PM EST |
| ... in practice there is.
Of course alogritms are an essential part of
software (just like math is an essential part of physics) but there is also much
more to software than just algorithms. If this were not true then you'd be out
of a job. There would be no need for programmers or software engineers, we
would only need computer scientists who come up with algorithms and all those
algorithms would be able to magically run on all hardware platforms.
As you
should well know, one of the primary jobs of a programmer is to convert
algorithms into working code. This is an non-trivial step and it is probably a
multi-billion dollar industry.
Here is another clue. The GPL relies on
copyright law. If software was just algorithms and nothing more, then there
would be no place for the GPL because you certainly can't copyright an
algorithm.
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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more
contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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