J. Grimbert wrote in message <37987EB2.A7AC92CC@atos-group.com>...
>Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>> In article <3797f5ff@news.povray.org> , "Anders Haglund"
>> <and### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>
>> > Well, we just have to start distribute povray from sweden then because
we
>> > don't have patents on algorithms here. :)
>> > It has been done for a couple of mp3-encoders who use that fast
fraunhofer
>> > algorithm or what ever it's called.
>>
>> I think that goes for the whole European Union - we don't have such a
>> nonsense here in Germany either.
>>
>Yet! But trust the U.S. government to put pressure on the E.U. parlement
>to recognize:
> - mathematical patent (just let me patent PI and e, as well as the
>addition)


Someone HAS gotten a patent on a number!  It is a large prime number, and as
such is useful for encryption.  The person who got the patent on the number
did so to show how out of hand the patent process was.

Mark

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