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Software Patents: Just Because It’s in Code Doesn’t Mean it Isn’t an Invention

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Software Patents: Just Because It’s in Code Doesn’t Mean it Isn’t an Invention

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Post by ryansan » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

Software Patents: Just Because It’s in Code Doesn’t Mean it Isn’t an Invention
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Post by iandanforth » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

Just because you have "intellectual" in your name doesn't mean you're not a group of disingenuous idiots.

Re: Software Patents: Just Because It’s in Code Doesn’t Mean it Isn’t an Invention

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Post by bediger4000 » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

Inventions are often duplicated, especially in software. See the history of Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching algorithm for a classic example.

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