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Re:Software Patent Abolition Petition by gruseom on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @06:43PM (#3184499)
Why should it not be treated the way a mathematical result is? People invest time and effort into proving theorems too. It seems to me that software is ideas, like math is.
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Re:Software Patent Abolition Petition by huhtenberg on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @04:26AM (#3185842)
Perhaps because math is a fundamental science and therefore funded in a completely different way?
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Re:Software Patent Abolition Petition by gruseom on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @01:24PM (#3187882)
Yet your own algorithm example is a lot closer to math than to, say, a typical web app.
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