How does this work, exactly?
How does this work, exactly?
Posted Jun 4, 2025 9:09 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: How does this work, exactly? by Wol
Parent article: OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora
Software is pure maths all the way round the circle, and maths is not accepted as eligible subject matter.
That is as may be. But if you look at, e.g., Dennis Ritchie's famous SUID patent, you will find that it takes considerable pains to explain what it does in terms of hardware, presumably in order to avoid the “software is maths” issue. Which is (a) typical of the genre, and (b) must have been enough to make the patent office happy, at least.