Message from @ManAnimal
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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.
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
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An algorithm is just a set of instructons for a computer, how is that theoretical?
that isn't what an algorthiim is
that is code
an implementation
ah
my old 2003 phone was great 😛 it could run thousands of apps... unlike the first iPhone which had no 3rd party apps whatsoever