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What isn't math tho? A lawnmower is just an assemblage of laws of physics. In this case, software is just an assemblage of laws of boolean algebra or something.
by kajaktum 4y ago
What isn't math tho? A lawnmower is just an assemblage of laws of physics. In this case, software is just an assemblage of laws of boolean algebra or something.
- jmyeet 4y agoWhy should the idea of a lawnmower be patented? There are already enough protections for IP. Design patents, trademarks and copyright (to some degree). Giving an inventor of something a monopoly on its creation should be extremely limited. Quite famously, the Wright Brothers original patent on the flight control mechanism successfully stifled any American company from making a plane, which became a real issue when the US entered World War One. The US quite famously had to buy planes from Europeans. This was such a huge problem that Congress passed laws to create a patent pool for aviation to stop this happening again. Patents are unnecessary and they stifle innovation in almost all cases.
- dismalpedigree 4y agoThis is interesting. Can you recommend a link to read more about this?
- garaetjjte 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
- Forgeties79 4y agoI’m really scratching my head over this one not gonna lie. Are you being serious or being somewhat provocative with an example designed to take the logic to an illogical extreme?
- kajaktum 4y ago> Patents on software just shouldn't exist. At all. > We already have established laws where you can't patent maths. > An algorithm is just a function. OP seems to suggest that software is "just math". Everything is "just math".
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- Forgeties79 4y agoI get that, I’m mostly taking umbrage with the lawnmower example.