On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:28 AM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In short "specific hardware" is extremely generic until the software > gets in whence it morphs into "special adoption or modification of > its hardware or organization ". > > In the above i have restricted myself to silicon. But the same could > apply to full machines - robots -. What a robot does is totally > dependent on the software. You could make it do flips or eye surgery. > > What you should aim at is complete ban on patents for any software / > process / method irrespective of it being tied to specific hardware, > including the results of code being morphed into machine readable > binaries, either for execution on, or modification of internal > elements in FPGA / ASIC / General or special purpose machines, > irrespective of it's method of storage or accessseaability
jtd, I have to agree with you. Given how easy it is to produce "specific hardware" nowadays, this can be a dangerous loophole. Venky -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
