Darren New wrote:
> People don't patent algorithms. They either patent computer hardware 
> that accomplishes a task, or they patent an algorithm applied to 
> accomplish a specific task.
> 
In which you just contradicted yourself. Specific tasks are not 
relevant. X + Y = Z is a specific task too, and if you mean "specific" 
as in, "The numbers need to be 2, 3 and 5.", then just about every, 
"algorithm applied to accomplish a specific task.", would be invalid, 
since they are no where near that *specific*. You shouldn't be allowed 
to have it both ways, yet, part of the problem seems to be that many are 
provisionally allowed, based "specifically" on this sort of slight of hand.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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