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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 04:37 PM EST |
| Donald Knuth (perhaps THE leading figure of CS, if not equal in status to
Dijkstra and such) wrote a very nice
letter to the European Patent Office on this topic. (Link goes to the
Groklaw analysis of said letter, which has a link to our locally hosted PDF copy
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:01 PM EST |
Seriously, would there be value in conducting an
impartially-worded survey of computer scientists on this?
All the time I see statements like "virtually all computer
scientists agree software is math and shouldn't be
patentable". I suspect that statement is probably true, but
has anyone ever collected the data to back it up? It might
make an impression on judges and lawmakers to hear that 95%
of computer science faculty in the US (because that's where
the problem is worst) think the patent office has it all
wrong on this topic.
It won't convince the pro-patent lawyers, just like
scientific reasoning never alters the beliefs of anti-
evolutionists, but there are also reasonable people who
truly don't know the issues who would be convinced.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 10:19 PM EST |
The short version: $$
There are some serious 800-pound gorillas behind the current state of affairs.
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 06:18 AM EST |
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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