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Authored by: jesse on Sunday, November 25 2012 @ 12:06 AM EST |
The field of mathematics you are using is Numerical Analysis.
It is the field of developing algorithms for efficiently computing results...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Wol on Sunday, November 25 2012 @ 04:06 AM EST |
Or more to programming.
This entire post confuses the act of DOing with the act of BEing. Yes
program*ming* is a lot more than maths. But the program that comes out at the
end is *just* maths.
It's like writing a novel. You can't copyright the *act* of writing. But you can
copyright the *result* of writing. The *act* of programming is not maths. But
the *result* IS.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 25 2012 @ 10:43 AM EST |
Its not "extreme", and its also not a matter of opinion: its an objective fact
about how computers work. Software is nothing but data which is fed to a
universal algorithm (usually, the instruction cycle of your CPU). It contains
many other algorithms too, but ALL software is just data which expresses
the
form of a computation. Thats what the "soft" in "software" means: this
form is
expressed as changeable data, rather than expressing it as
"hardware" with
physical mechanisms that perform the specific
computation. A general purpose
CPU is capable of performing any
computation which can be performed, if
someone writes down the
proper
description of it (input data for the CPU, aka
"software").
Its just like saying a skilled musician can play any music on
their guitar,
and the "software" is sheet music. Deserves copyright? Yes. Is
creative,
expressive. Deserves patents? Of course not. Absurd, dangerous.
For
society, useless and expensive.
"Software" is entirely algorithmic and
entirely mathematical, and allowing
patents to cover it has been entirely a
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