19 Jun
2014
19 Jun
'14
1:12 p.m.
Or maybe it was never patented per se, but Wolfram's asserted proprietary ownership of the fact strikes me as the equivalent of a patent. --Dan On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
In my lifetime, folklore claimed abstract ideas were never patentable.
That's why the patent on Matthew Cook's proof of Turing-completeness of Rule 110 seemed so outrageous . . . and which I hope will now be declared null and void.