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technomancy
on Aug 13, 2010
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The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on...
> we had a patent lawyer who would always ask around if anything we developers did were patentable.
Easy answer: "of course there's nothing patentable here--it's software!"
chc
on Aug 14, 2010
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That's just legally inaccurate, but I suppose you could equivalently answer, "Nope, I'm mainly working on algorithms at the moment."
eru
on Aug 16, 2010
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I guess it depends on where you work? Or doesn't it?
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Easy answer: "of course there's nothing patentable here--it's software!"