From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 20:53:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9F51065670 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-315.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-315.bluehost.com [67.222.54.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07F658FC1B for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 6686 invoked by uid 0); 15 Dec 2008 20:45:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 20:45:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Z1hO2aroWKM+E+9hEHxn4d/vU+wH1b7aZQamW1+RPls93YEVAlEs2Kyir+6QhE62BGEt5napr6BumGE5YbC4ZkSfvasGWkhOxVuBU+och4QdGvswNC7HSReO0GI3u6M+; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LCKM7-0008FY-DL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:55 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:27 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:27 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081215204726.GJ60187@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081212181258.GE36348@kokopelli.hydra> <20081212203202.H4803@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081212150228.520ad7f8@scorpio> <20081212212552.GF37185@kokopelli.hydra> <1229230200.18610.87.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081215065327.GM5527@kokopelli.hydra> <1229325063.8820.5.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <49462e82.0JabFKZe33ZkdtYT%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1229344057.1647.49.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NgG1H2o5aFKkgPy/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229344057.1647.49.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:53:42 -0000 --NgG1H2o5aFKkgPy/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:27:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >=20 > If you have done your own research then the algorithms wouldn't > necessarily be the same- they'd nearly certainly be different, wouldn't > they? So isn't that the basis for the patent? A patent is a registration > of an idea. Two different ideas can still arrive at the same conclusion. Patents are often about methods, not algorithms. In fact, there's supposedly a restriction against algorithms being patented -- though of course lawmakers and people working at the patent office don't seem to know what an algorithm is, so algorithms do get patented all the time. Anyway . . . as it happens, patenting a "method" provides far more broad power than patenting an algorithm, anyway, in practice. That's one of the reason (software) patents are so damaging. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Reginald Braithwaite: "Nor is it as easy as piling more features on regardless of how well they fit or whether people will actually use them. Otherwise Windows would have 97% of the market and OS X 3%. (Oh wait.)" --NgG1H2o5aFKkgPy/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklGwl4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV/owCfepYsnuzwm92yPQ+NKJqKjLRv 7mIAoIC+U2XUq2WgAWMsNOqIwdGo074h =8E7O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NgG1H2o5aFKkgPy/--