Consider the alternative? A unilateral "You can't have what you have now
any more! Also, the stuff you paid for is worthless and you will have to report
the losses in your SEC filings.... good luck!"
At least in this way, they can't come back and claim "hey! you just made a
bunch of our assets worthless! I'm going to sue!!" They still might, but
the alternative is to continue with court case after court case, and judges who
favor software patents ignoring the higher courts as we are starting to see.
Someone is trying to call an end to the madness and I can only hope that people
remain vocal while these discussions go on. Software is recorded thought, a
list of instructions, the performance of calculations and most significantly, it
is the use of a machine for its intended purpose!
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THIS National
Geographic's Article titled -Math Can Be
Truly Painful,
Brain Study Shows
, where it is reported that the
brain
reacts to learning math just like how it reacts to physical
pain?
So - is
this the problem at the USPTO, Courts,
Judges, Congress (no wonder they can't
balance a budget,
it's the math- joke)?
So, It might be the least painful
route to avoid thinking
about math, even when considering patents?
Or, in
other ways too, where the brain is locked into
believing...? Where thru
history, many hold to beliefs, for
a long long time. And are seen by history as
those who live
by a belief in "word(s)" to an extreme, and this extreme
does
not allow the ability to
believe in anything else... even when the "evidence"
points
to another direction (proved by science and math).
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
In 1992, it was
reported in the news that the Catholic
Church had turned around towards
vindicating Galileo[49]:
Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist
and by
relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically
invented the
experimental method, understood why only the
sun could function as the centre
of the world, as it was
then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The
error
of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the
centrality of
the Earth, was to think that our understanding
of the physical world's
structure was, in some way, imposed
by the literal sense of Sacred
Scripture....
—Pope John Paul II, L'Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) -
November 4, 1992
In 2000, Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for all
the mistakes committed by some Catholics in the last 2,000
years of the
Catholic Church's history, including the trial
of Galileo among
others.[50][51]
So, the USPTO, is like it's own church, and
there are a
bunch of lawyers, and politicians, out there who are
believers in
software patents as well (judges too).
And the math, it's just too painful
too...?
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