lphilips54

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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   if you have any questions or comments about the code or algorithm, my email address can be found on my company website
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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   Thank you for your explanations. Actually, I understand the difference between copyright and patent very well thank you, and i also understand what public domain means. Unfortunately a number of people have misunderstood me to think that i
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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   would you say that you are representative of the type of person i would tend to encounter in your ruby open source community?
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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   "Philips' improvement of 2009 just wasn't enough of an advance over the old stuff." Not so. Metaphone 3 is not a derivative work. Ralston's patent merely uses (original 1990) metaphone as part of its design, and doe
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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   By the way, I might add that I am deeply appreciative of the people here who have reviewed this situation with a friendly and understanding response to my attitude.
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   by lphilips54 12y ago

   Well, I am sorry to have misunderstood the fact that a BSD license swears away any rights of control. In practice it turns out to be nearly indistinguishable from Public Domain, so what's the point? Let's just call it Public Domai