Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 15:34:33 GMT References: <62864@sgi.sgi.com> <=Y943A7@xds13.ferranti.com> <37297@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <63007@sgi.sgi.com> <21F4V63@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > Just a moment here: what you mean by "software" when you say it has been > patented: > 3) the algorithms used in that implementation > My understanding is that 3) cannot be patented, because it is maths. Like I said, there's a problem with patent laws when it comes to software. It's gonna take a long time to work the kinks out. In the meantime abuses like the XOR cursor are going to run rampant. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.