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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 03:19 AM EDT |
"And meanwhile, please make note of what pro-software-patent
folks think are winning arguments. Really think about what
their belief system is made up of and how to explain why it
is off-base technically."
I have been trying to do this recently, and I think it's
wonderful advice. Much harder to do than to talk about
doing, though. They think software isn't math, due either to
misunderstanding what math is (for example, thinking that
anything that isn't a number or an equation isn't math), or
to thinking that something (like a reference to the verb "to
do" or a reference to electrons being physical) magically
makes it not math. They seem to have several possible
definitions of "abstract", which don't seem to match
standard dictionary definitions. In reading some of their
arguments, I've started wondering why they aren't in favor
of patenting books and similar things.
That's where I'm at in understanding them; I'm not sure if
all of my impressions are accurate, and if I tried arguing
their case right now, I'd probably fail.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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