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Re: MS Word problem

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In article <za6dnRs3g5VluWjQnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
mbyerley@byerley.net says...

...

> > Actually, s/w patent are ridiculous and the entire system
> > needs to be overhauled for the computer industry.

Agreed; software is nothing more than a mathematical algorithm, and 
therefore shouldn't be patentable, but currently is.


> >
> > There are almost no *truly* innovative ideas anymore, and some
> 
> 
>     I have thought for a very long time, that in any given language to 
> address a specific problem, and the problem is addressed many to the fourth 
> or so, that exact source code replication is inevitable, so in that context, 
> when the particular replicator comes up with the exact solution, independent 
> of the discovery or exposure to the originating source code, how has he 
> violated anything?

That's just the way patents work.  Even if you come up with something 
completely independently, if somebody else has already patented it, 
you're in violation; you don't have to have copied anything.  It's not 
the same as a trade secret, where somebody else is perfectly within 
their rights to re-invent the wheel.

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