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Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary

Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary

Posted Oct 19, 2010 22:48 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary by SiB
Parent article: Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter

Unfortunately, classical physics by itself is unable to define the scope where it is applicable.


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Open source must be able to deal with patent licenses if necessary

Posted Oct 21, 2010 19:33 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Precisely.

And the reason for this is that classical physics is couched in maths. It is self-consistent, built on a bunch of axioms, and can be shown to be mathematically correct.

Unfortunately one of the KEY assumptions (if not THE key assumption) is the axiom "parallel lines never meet". Which has been empirically proven false - Einstein's 1919 solar eclipse experiment was the event.

Cheers,
Wol


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