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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture
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Date: 24 Jul 90 12:22:24 GMT
References: <62864@sgi.sgi.com> <=Y943A7@xds13.ferranti.com> <37297@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <63007@sgi.sgi.com> <SOA4-T5@ficc.ferranti.com> <PCG.90Jun30223813@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <40193@think.Think.COM> <PCG.90Jul23181123@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk>
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In article <PCG.90Jul23181123@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo
Grandi) proceeds to analyse the "setuid bit" into its component parts and
finds nothing there...

I think you will find that if you analyse anything down far enough you will
find that each part of it is really something else: any patent, any idea, any
invention, any algorithm. The original idea comes from bringing all this
together into a new thing. An epiphenomenon.

I could go on with this, using new-age buzz phrases like "reductionism versus
holism", or direct you to \Godel, Escher, Bach/, but I think I've made my
point.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
<peter@ficc.ferranti.com>