On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:38:45AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Anyway, I think that it's undoubtedly onerous if not whimsical to patent > software - as software is just a collection of algorithms, which in > turn degenerates into truth statements. Unless we already allow
To be more precise, software is actually an implementation of algorithms, which are actually mathematical theorems. This was the big controversy behind the patenting of Karmarkar's algorithm, which I believe was one of the first of them. > patenting the expressions of the truth, there's no good reason why > software patents should even exist here. How about business method patents? It's only a short step from there to software patents, and if I'm not mistaken it was mainly because the USPTO started accepting these things that opened the door to patents on software. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
