Groklaw: Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented
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Started by: zoobabzoobab
Date: 04 Jun 2009 13:46
Number of posts: 1
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If only they had listened to him then! And what a mess the US patent system has become, because they did not listen. Hopefully, Europe will not make the same mistake. You can find the other amicus briefs and letters submitted to the EPO here, and I'll be publishing several of them here on Groklaw in time, to show more reasons why software patents are viewed as so harmful by programmers, those most directly impacted by whatever decision the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal reaches. Remember when patent attorney Gene Quinn wrote that software isn't math?
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