He just invented the best way (so far) of visualizing it.

but we don't consider an 'method' an invention

correct @NinjaQuick

in fact you can't patent an algorithm just an i mplementation of an algorithm

We literally do consider methods inventions.

Nobody invented the rules of physics f.e.

They were discovered

I think you can patent those

"in fact you can't patent an algorithm just an i mplementation of an algorithm"

nigger

you can patent an algorithm I have one patented

otherwise there would BE no Linux Desktop

When someone invented a method of etching lines in silicon using masks and uv light

well you can apply for a patent on just about anything

isnt Linus just open source?

They invented the ground work for integrated circuits today.

but can only ENFORCE a particular implementation

Like Google Android

it's GNU/Linux

not Linux

smh

not the desktop

literally 99% of it is GNU

and 1% of it, the kernel, is Linux

much of the code is a re-implementation of the same windows algorithms and behaviour

if someone uses my algorithm as set out in the patent they must pay me a royalty

Like someone invented the method of wiping from in front.

the open source code is a particular implementation

if they improve upon it then that is a matter for legal interpretation

Or how rustle meow invented a way to make adults look shockingly young.

unless I wave that right with a MIT or similar open licence

you can't readily determine if it is the algorithm being improved upon or the implementation which is better

You can by benchmarking them

you can quantify, measure and test an implementation

you can kinda invent something that already exists... I had a smartphone running windows that had file manager and office, and could run any progam before the first iPhone.. but Jobs still "invented" the iPhone

an algorithm is just a theoretical approach

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true wacka; you are creating a different implementation

which behaves much like the original

hence why implementation is taken out of the law, you have to spend hours with a patent lawyer and he translates simple math into some silly patent language that is unambiguous

the behaviour is the alogorithm