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2010-12-24 10:16:42
Software patents must die. Patents were never designed to protect
ideas--especially mathematical ideas and a computer program is a mathematical
idea that has been written down.
Copyright your code, treat it as a trade secret, but don't roadblock other
developers from independently deriving their own mathematical ideas, however
abstractly expresed. If you have code that you can link to a particular machine
of yours, fine. But pure code must be free.
I see this thing as a ******* free speech issue. Mathematical speech is speech.
So long as you're not copying somebody else's ******* speech, then you can say
or write whatever the **** you want. This is ******* ******* America and it