Subj : Re: Software Patents
To   : comp.programming
From : Sc0rpi0
Date : Mon Jul 11 2005 03:26 am

Joe Seigh:

>> No work arounds, which involve choosing a different
>> algorithm, will help.

And very often that algorithm must be worse, slower etc.
(forced by fact you can't use patented one which is
THE ONLY ONE that is optimum as said). So is it
progress inventing something that works worse ?
Don't think so...

> You can't patent mathematical formulas, just algorithms 
> that have to be associated some form of process on
> computing machinery.  That's why you'll see wording to that effect
> in software patents.

Blah, blah... then what is RSA or Diffie-Hellman key-exch ?
Just x pow y modulo z - clear example of math form. patenting.
Depends that pairs of numbers in RSA will give f^-1() to each
other is also only a math nothing else.


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Sc0rpi0
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