They have every right to copyright the source code, and/or to keep it secret. But they have no more right to patent an algorithm than Newton or Leibniz had the right to patent Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
If you don't believe me, check out the mySQL book from O'Reilly. The example database is a record collection, and it's all Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, etc.
I don't think Rob was necessarily dissing Stevie, just suggesting that there is little overlap between Slashdot readers and Stevie Wonder fans. But he may be wrong about this as well: I had a CS professor who is probably in his early 50s now, who was this total Jazz Geek. And, although I didn't get into specifics, I imagine his tastes were closer to Weather Report than to, say Pharoah Sanders. Stevie Wonder's early 70s work is very fusion/modal influenced, so there are possibly a fair number of/.er-Stevie fans, though they're probably a little long in the tooth. Sorry about the hard returns, Lynx doesn't word wrap the text entry field.
There was an article in George magazine about the Primary Colors episode; it's just as Kano describes it. I don't know if it's on the web, though; Alta Vista turned up nothing
Slashdot Mirror
enough, and the bigs can't go there. Of course most stores wouldn't touch it; just the thing for BitTorrent.
They have every right to copyright the source code, and/or to keep it secret. But they have no more right to patent an algorithm than Newton or Leibniz had the right to patent Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
If you don't believe me, check out the mySQL book from O'Reilly. The example database is a record collection, and it's all Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, etc.
I don't think Rob was necessarily dissing Stevie, /.er-Stevie fans, though they're probably a little long in the tooth. Sorry about the hard returns, Lynx doesn't word wrap the text entry field.
just suggesting that there is little overlap between
Slashdot readers and Stevie Wonder fans. But he may
be wrong about this as well: I had a CS professor
who is probably in his early 50s now, who was this
total Jazz Geek. And, although I didn't get into
specifics, I imagine his tastes were closer to
Weather Report than to, say Pharoah Sanders. Stevie
Wonder's early 70s work is very fusion/modal influenced,
so there are possibly a fair number of
There was an article in George magazine about the Primary Colors episode; it's just as Kano describes it. I don't know if it's on the web, though; Alta Vista turned up nothing
they could call it the rosie palm pilot