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A comment on Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013). Parent comment

Re:Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013) by deckar01 on Friday May 15, 2015 @03:34AM (#9549364)
It is more like some person trying to assert copyright over all the ways you can add, remove, or change the notes in one of Metallica's guitar riffs.
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Re:Apple's Collatz Hash Patent Application (2013) by VeejayRampay on Friday May 15, 2015 @04:43AM (#9549529)
It is more like it's impossible to use a metaphor in the programming world without someone correcting you with a different metaphor :)
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