An Insider's View of Software Patents

An anonymous reader writes "Ross Gittins at the Sydney Morning Herald has published an interesting insider view of software patents. This kind of thing is starting to be a hot issue down here with the US-Australia Free Trade deal about to be ratified and bring our intellectual property laws in line with Micros^D^D^D^D^D^D^D America's."

Comments

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[Anonymous Coward]

makes a change from error 500

welcome to slashdot

FP?

[Anonymous Coward]

I claim this post in the name of Spain!

hah

[Anonymous Coward]

i dont believe it

Re:"Re:Nothing for you to see here." The answer is

[mattjb0010]

Other neat tricks on Google:

1. Do a search on "1" and then "2" ... "9" and for each number plot the number of hits returned versus the number, and you end up with something like Benford's Law.
2. On Babelfish, enter a phrase in one language, and keep translating it through the set of languages until you hit a limit cycle.

Re:Tending the coals

[Mike Hawk]

I have forwarded your offer to bomb a government building to John Ashcroft. Have a nice day.

The mind of a Lawyer

[CarrionBird]

Full of shit.

Premise Beach

[Beardydog]

I claim this post in the name of France!

Re:Follow the lead of the anonymous author!

[Anonymous Coward]

Second, you should think through whether or not algorithms are mathematical in nature, and whether mathematics is discovered or invented.

I just discovered this algorithm!

10 PRINT "BRUCE PERENS IS A DICK"
20 GOTO 10

This is mathematics that I just happened to discover - ipso facto, the universe thinks Bruce Perens is a dick!

LMAO!!

[Anonymous Coward]

fucking awesome story dude