Re: Is b-tree index patented?
From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:00 -0700
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:00 -0700
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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
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> > Why new
> > algorithm is not an invention?
>
> Because algorithms are mathematics and mathematics has nothing
> inventive in itself.
I beg your pardon, but you sound much like Nobel. Why such discrimination?
> But most software patents are not algorithms.
Agreed.
> Imagine that Codd had patented the application of logic to the data
> management field. It would be ridiculous IMO.
I see nothing wrong with it. It would be inventor who get's rewarded. How Codd is different from Alexander Graham Bell? Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 18:16:00 CEST