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   dart200 to Noah Sombrero   
   Re: "software patent" is an oxymoron   
   01 Feb 26 16:43:04   
   
   From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/31/26 11:50 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:28:31 -0800, dart200   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/31/26 10:18 AM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   >>> In the 1960, software was patented, Carter made it copyright,   
   >>> now it is patents again   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> software expresses a particular formula to compute a math function and   
   >> shouldn't even by copyrightable, let alone patentable   
   >   
   > The expertise it takes to make computers work with higher math is not   
   > any more common than the expertise to write and record a hit song or   
   > write and publish a top selling novel.   
   >   
   > All such types deserve to not have their work stolen and deserve to be   
   > rewarded for it.   
      
   bruh copying something is fucking stealing u moron, it doesn't take   
   anything away from the original work   
      
   i'm tired of people and their endless narcissism in thinking they are   
   right to coercively block literally everyone else from copying.   
      
   it's absolute fucking madness. it's not healthy to think like that, and   
   i don't care if ur too much a child to handle that   
      
   honestly. copyrights were a travesty and they substantial decreased the   
   spread of information at the time they started to be enforced, something   
   we're still struggling with today   
      
   >   
   > The math involved in video game imaging employs the highest math we   
   > have, for instance.  What does it take to cause a video game image of   
   > a character seem to move smoothly in 3 dimensions on a 2 dimensional   
   > interface?  How about a screen full of images moving independently in   
   > various directions but relative to each other?  Hollymoly.   
      
   bruh that math itself hasn't changed for years   
      
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