POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Knuth says so : Re: Knuth says so Server Time
6 Sep 2024 01:27:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knuth says so  
From: Warp
Date: 25 Jun 2009 14:04:34
Message: <4a43bc32@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> The other problem with a lot of patents is they're not "enabling". This 
> means they don't tell you how to build the actual device.

  How about patents which require fictional laws of physics in order to
work? http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6960975.html

  This kind of patent would never be granted in Europe (at least in theory)
because of the requirement that a *working* prototype of the device must
exist.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.