Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: Warwick Allison
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 05:44

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mainline@omni.voicenet.com (William Smargiassi) writes:

>Couldn't happen. Mathematical formulas are not patentable.

So any "program" written in a purely functional language is not patentable?
Copyrightable?

Interesting.

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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
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