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Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)Posted Nov 7, 2012 2:30 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired) by drag Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)
Nope. There's a crucial difference - set of steps for chemical reaction is not abstract. That's a real-world description of a real-world process.
You can (in theory) get result of any algorithm by performing its steps on a piece of paper. You can't get a result of a chemical reaction by performing it on a piece of paper.
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Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired) Posted Dec 5, 2012 5:25 UTC (Wed) by ghane (subscriber, #1805) [Link]
> You can (in theory) get result of any algorithm by performing its steps on a piece of paper.
If I was to use pebbles on a large piece of cloth, to "reduce a set of numbers to another, for audio reproduction", would that be OK?
Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired) Posted Dec 5, 2012 8:41 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]
> If I was to use pebbles on a large piece of cloth, to "reduce a set of numbers to another, for audio reproduction", would that be OK?
Yup. http://xkcd.com/505/
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