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

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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

not an abstract design

forgive my momentary retardation.

in software engineering, one designs an application seperate from any particular language

plus I used to code apps for windows mobile 5+ so I could make my own stuff for the phone

then that design can be implemented in whatever language deems most a ppropriate

they used cf.net

software engineering is mostly the pseudo code

typically, development doesn't work that way though

it's just seat of the pants implementation with very little abstract 'algorithmic' design

Owen Jones?

the a FIFO stack is an algorithm or memory cache is an algorithm with millions of implementations