Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: You are aware that software patents are one of the purest forms of evil, 
: right?

  And also useless. Patenting your algorithm makes sure that it will never
be popular, it will never be developed further and that it will be forgotten
for tens of years (only after the patent expires, if the algorithm is still
relevant, it *might* have some success).
  This is exactly what happened with, for example, fractal compression of
images. How many programs do you know that support encoding? Or even decoding?
How much has it evolved since the idea was discovered?
  In contrast, think about PNG. No patents, huge popularity boom.

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