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> Basically, any patent that an average software developer would violate just in their normal course of work By definition that's every software patent, given
by welder 7y ago
> Basically, any patent that an average software developer would violate just in their normal course of work
By definition that's every software patent, given the same problem to solve.
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- derekp7 7y agoWhat about ones like the RSA patent? From what I understand, the requirements were laid out ages ago, but it wasn't known if any algorithm could meet those requirements until the RSA algorithm was developed. Of course, RSA is just math, and patent law already forbids patents on math (but somehow unless it is math related to computers). But that was just the first example off the top of my head of algorithms that took a bit of work to develop (just like many other encryption algorithms, or ML algorithms, etc).