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Article #74573Thought on software patents
From: Henry Churchyard
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 16:51
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1991 16:51
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On the subject of patenting algorithms, it occurs to me that
Buckminster Fuller got a patent for his Dymaxion map (a projection of
the earth's surface onto a cuboctahedron). Bucky didn't invent the
cuboctahedron, or the geometrical principles which made the projection
possible, so why did he get the patent? (This was in 1946, by the
way. . .)
--
Another quasi-random thought from:
Henry Churchyard, churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,45c1cb6c5f7d4987,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-23 12:31:23 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!churchh From: churchh@ut-emx.uucp (Henry Churchyard) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Thought on software patents Keywords: Bucky Message-ID: <46073@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 23 Mar 91 16:51:53 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 11