Re: Patents

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From: Raul Rockwell
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1991 23:36

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Dietrich Kappe:
   A text file is after all not executable by a computer (under normal
   circumstances), and distributing source code amounts to publication
   and (though wordy comments) discusion of the patented material,
   which is what patents are supposed to encourage, right?

Yes, that's what patents are supposed to encourage.

No, text files may be executable by a computer.  I've posted several
articles, to a different newsgroup, which contain a few lines of
program text embedded in the article.  And, the language has a
primitive command to extract executable code from the article.  [Ala
`web`, but much simpler: statements are executed line at a time,
illegal lines are ignored -- so you just treat the article as a script
file.]

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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Subject: Re: Patents
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