--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Personaly I think that scientific information, discoveries should > > never be secret. I had a physics prof who had a pattent on an > > solution to a class of equations. (don't remember details), So, > > everyone now knows the information, can use the solution in their > > work, but if they use the solution in a way that generates income, > > they owe him for it. > > > > I didn't realize you could patent the truth. I thought patents were for > inventions and discoveries. To patent an equation would be like patenting a > syllogism - it strikes me as permitting someone to claim that he invented a truth > rather than described it. >
Not "the equation", a method for ~solving~ a family of equations. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
