Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016 schrieb KatolaZ: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:38:52AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016 schrieb Rick Moen: > > > So, banning software patents is difficult, because of the ease of > > > instantiating software in hardware. > > > > On the contrary, it's quite easy: what ever can be implemented using a > > turing machine is not patentable. > > > > That would include also all digital hardware ;) It wouldn't be too > bad, indeed...
No, it would not. You cannot implement e.g. an array of transistors on a turing machine, but you can implement a turing machine on an array of transistors :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
