Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
- Subject: Re: WebObjects become opensource ?
- From: Anjo Krank <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:42:28 +0200
Sorry, can't resist :) From what I understand is that your supreme
court basically said that everything man-made under the sun should be
patentable. Recently even they finally came to their sense and said it
had to have some physical component.
The reason (as I understand it) is that patents are *not* for the
benefit of the holders. They are to get holders to disclose on their
stuff and to get a limited monopoly in return. This is to *promote*
innovation so that others can simply look at the patent and build from
that.
I find it pretty hard to imagine a concept in IT that is hard enough
for someone well-versed in the field (not IT, the special application)
that you can't come up with too once you see it can be done. The
reason being it's pretty cheap. Look at MP3 for example, or JPEG. Once
you got the idea that you *can* compress images or sounds with some
math crap, it's only grunt-work to do it. LAME took about a year from
a crappy patch-set to the final product.
Cheers, Anjo
Am 15.09.2009 um 22:19 schrieb Mike Schrag:
That example is tricky. Data structures can be considered
mathematical concepts
sorry .. lazy example .. i kind of intended that in the "objecty"
sense --- "data structure + algorithm". as i understand it, you
would not (at least in the US) be able to patent a data structure
(and technically not JUST an algorithm either). i believe you patent
the use of a particular data structure + algorithm to solve a
SPECIFIC problem.
ms
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