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Is it any surprise that the group running VP8's main competitor is trying to convince the world it's vulnerable to patents?
by william42 15y ago
Is it any surprise that the group running VP8's main competitor is trying to convince the world it's vulnerable to patents?
- astrodust 15y agoThe point is every bit of software is vulnerable and it's not helping anyone. If your "invention" could be recreated by another programmer independently, often inadvertently, it's not really much of an invention now is it?
- tzs 15y agoSo by that argument, the invention of calculus was not a big deal, since Newton and Leibniz arrived at it independently.
- regularfry 15y agoCalculus was discovered, not invented.
- tzs 15y agoWhat's the difference?
- regularfry 15y agoIf there's only one way to do it, and anyone faced with the same problem would have to do it the same way, it's a discovery. Otherwise, it's an invention. Inventions are patentable. Discoveries aren't. Or shouldn't be, according to the intent of the system.