me@ai-lab > reply with this: Hey dude, Genome and Gnome are two different things! ai: the poster tried to be funny me@ai-lab > abort post! ai: too late, stuff posted me@ai-lab > darn.
I don't see how discoveries are intellectual property, sorry. If Stephen VanDahm discovers a new law of nature, he may want others to call it "VanDahm's Law", and that's it. Newton invented calculus, but he never demanded royalties. He only demanded recognition of his priority (despite the fact that Leibnitz published first). Ditto for law of gravity.
Laws of nature and math equations are just there, open to everybody to discover. (Note: I consider algorithms to be math equations).
Ok, so how just any wireless device is different from a cell phone? If it can call phone numbers, it's a cell phone pretty much by definition; and if it can't...well, would you buy it?
No, copy protection is not the only way. There are others. Divine intervention, for instance. Both have some drawbacks though. The latter won't happen; the former won't work.
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me@ai-lab > reply with this:
Hey dude, Genome and Gnome are two different things!
ai: the poster tried to be funny
me@ai-lab > abort post!
ai: too late, stuff posted
me@ai-lab > darn.
Laws of nature and math equations are just there, open to everybody to discover. (Note: I consider algorithms to be math equations).
Old Five Seven Five,
You better look out, you've got
Some competition.
Oh yes. I forgot. We don't have VII services around here (yet). Count me clueless.
Ok, so how just any wireless device is different from a cell phone? If it can call phone numbers, it's a cell phone pretty much by definition; and if it can't...well, would you buy it?
No, copy protection is not the only way. There are others. Divine intervention, for instance. Both have some drawbacks though. The latter won't happen; the former won't work.
It's good to note you didn't forget to misspell a word, experience in this case.