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[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [11-11-06 22:22]:
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>      As a side note... some software ( none if it is intellectual
> property in my view) can also be viewed the same way most of us view
> mathematics. No mathematical "truth" can be patented. Much of
> software (if not all...) is similar to mathematical truth... whether
> trivial or not... and should not be patentable for the same reason.
> This is of course a minor point to the real answer... which is that
> software is text and should be protected as text...  not as a
> physical (meta-physical) object.

 
I think, a _very_ good analogy.  Thankyou,

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