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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by kuschku on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:09AM (#11165461)
Exactly — but for all practical measures, it does not differ if they release it in the patent, or only when the patent runs out.

Currently, they don't release it at all.

Additional regulation I'd like to see: Any neural networks trained based on data of users have to be completely public domain. If Google wishes to train recaptcha, they should either pay for people to train it, or give back to the public the value that the public created.

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by mattlutze on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:05AM (#11166087)
It does matter, because if the publish it in the patent I can start planning to build something with years before the patent expires, or time improvements I make on it for that expiration.
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