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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 Dec 5, 2012 5:25 UTC (Wed) by ghane (subscriber, #1805)In reply to: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired) by Cyberax Parent article: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them (Wired)
> 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?
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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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