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H.264 support coming to Firefox

H.264 support coming to Firefox

Posted Mar 20, 2012 21:04 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: H.264 support coming to Firefox by gmaxwell
Parent article: H.264 support coming to Firefox

> The same kind of autistic but-software-is-math arguments could easily be extended to argue that anything is math: "But what is a cotton gin but an arrangement of atoms, which could be run on a molecular simulator with the same behavior—it's just math! unpatentable!".

Wow! Maybe you should then try processing some cotton on that molecular simulator.

The rule that math is not patentable does not come from "autistic" arguments by programmers. It comes from the law itself.

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H.264 support coming to Firefox

Posted Mar 20, 2012 23:54 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

At this point of time pointing out that software is just a form of math and math is not patentable would probably result in math _becoming_ patentable.

H.264 support coming to Firefox

Posted Mar 21, 2012 1:23 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (1 responses)

It already is, actually. See eHarmony patents, for example.

Yeah, sad.

H.264 support coming to Firefox

Posted Mar 21, 2012 16:12 UTC (Wed) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

>It already is, actually. See eHarmony patents, for example.

Or Penrose tiling


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