Qui, 2006-12-28 às 17:32 +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels escreveu: > > The EPO is already doing a great job as far as "software patents" are > > concerned. > > And you are an authority on these matters.
No, but the EPO is, an they declared about 30 thousand software patents circa 2002. > > > Most programmers don't write software like poems. It's written much > > > like one would "write" mathematical formulae. > > > > Oh yeah, just like mathematical formulas... When was the last time > > that you wrote a "mathematical formula" ? High school calculus ? > > I am not a mathematician (I am a crystallographer by training and a > programmer by trade), so I hardly ever engage in writing down theorems > or proofs. That, however, has nothing to do with the fact that software > is not written as a poem, but rather as a set of logically coherent > statements in a restricted language, much more like mathematics. Many mathematicians would argue that some works are science yet also art. Anyway, math isn't patentable on sane countries. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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