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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 01:03 PM EST |
Aymara is a prime candidate and Hopi also has attractions for use in Quantum
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Authored by: BitOBear on Friday, February 01 2013 @ 03:28 PM EST |
All code is copyrighted anyway. As long as the "shape and structure"
idiocy continues to fail as it did in Oracle v Google (Java v Dalvik) then
having the copyright on the patented code is immaterial.
Example:
Odd:
V *= 3;
V += 1;
Even:
V >>= 1;
if (V == 1) goto Done;
if (V % 1) goto Odd; else goto Even;
Done:
The above is working code for a (slightly simplified) implementation of
producing Collatz Conjecture. It describes the algorythm completely. I own it
from the copyright perspective.
The above, however, doesn't do anything expressive. It runs the series inside
the variable V but it doesn't print the sequence or anything.
Actual uses of that code would have print statements or something. e.g. here is
a patent on a method for a simplified Collatz sequence. (The full sequence would
be as shown below, and is different in its computational components.)
Odd:
V *= 3;
V += 1;
goto Test;
Even:
V /= 2;
Test:
if (V == 1) goto Done;
if (V % 1) goto Odd; else goto Even;
Done:
These two working bodies of valid code above are unique in function (the latter,
classic, full sequence executes the if statements a lot more and uses
"actual division" while the former observes that a right-shift of one
bit position is faster but numerically identical to division when the
denominator is two) though both test and exemplify the conjecture itself.
In all cases of actual use, both bodies of code are almost useless. The
represent an interval of time where the processor is running but no output is
produced.
So the "real code" that used the "patented invention" would
have other lines of code in it do make use of the invention itself. Also the use
of more expressive variable names and potentially useful comments would show a
different copyright origin and such.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 02:14 AM EST |
As has been stated elsewhere here:
Make the accompanying source code Public Domain.
To use it would require a Patent Licence, but as soon as the patent expires, it
would be free for use - the bargain of patent monopoly: you get a *LIMITED*
(sic) monopoly in exchange for revealing *EXACT* details of your invention.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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