I agree. I think every possible snippet of code should be patented, as should any process, software or otherwise. Perhaps we could get patents on the concept of time and information flow, then we would have everything in computing covered (and many other areas of interest). I'm thinking of patenting the process I use to label my socks so I know which ones go with which. I'm also going to patent the process I use to brush my teeth. Back to the domain of software process engineering, I am going to patent a method of uniquely identifying end-users such that their identity can be passed from server to server so that they can be known at many locations. I will use an identification method that records their domain and their identity in that context. Using this method, the holders of this information will be able to send information to these people in a store-and-forward system that allows the end user to pull the communications to them, regardless of their physical location. To complete the circuit, the process will include a method of signaling receipt to the sender of the message. I've also come up with the idea of an iterative control structure that allows the sequential processing of an arbitrarily sized group of elements. I'm toying with the idea of a construct that will allow me to go directly to home without passing jail. At a more abstract level, this will allow rapid exit of a block of code to get to another and will revolutionize the software industry.
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Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA), a version of which is posted at http://216.110.42.179/docs/hollings.090701.html Think of your reader.
I install Linux off the network. Maybe HP could make the same available for Windows XP.
Find, fix, redsign, regression test...all in a month? Sounds like marketing hyperbole. Is Martha Stewart helping out?
I agree. I think every possible snippet of code should be patented, as should any process, software or otherwise. Perhaps we could get patents on the concept of time and information flow, then we would have everything in computing covered (and many other areas of interest). I'm thinking of patenting the process I use to label my socks so I know which ones go with which. I'm also going to patent the process I use to brush my teeth. Back to the domain of software process engineering, I am going to patent a method of uniquely identifying end-users such that their identity can be passed from server to server so that they can be known at many locations. I will use an identification method that records their domain and their identity in that context. Using this method, the holders of this information will be able to send information to these people in a store-and-forward system that allows the end user to pull the communications to them, regardless of their physical location. To complete the circuit, the process will include a method of signaling receipt to the sender of the message. I've also come up with the idea of an iterative control structure that allows the sequential processing of an arbitrarily sized group of elements. I'm toying with the idea of a construct that will allow me to go directly to home without passing jail. At a more abstract level, this will allow rapid exit of a block of code to get to another and will revolutionize the software industry.