Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights)

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From: SILL D E
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 16:41

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In article <9492@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM writes:
>
>2 Algorithms are useful for many purposes.  An algorithm conceived for a
>particular use may be readily applied to a completely different problem.

Not true.  Algorithms have very specific functions.  A sorting
algorithm can't recalculate a spreadsheet or compress a chunk of data.
This association of algorithms with physical devices that apply them
is totally bogus.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)		These are my opinions.
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
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