[Patents] patents on ITU-proposals (g.723.1)

[dmarti@zgp.org (Don Marti)]

begin Gregory Aharonian quotation of Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:11:39PM -0500:

> Sorry, but if you are going to assert such unsubstantiated reasoning,
> you leave me no choice but to point out to that most people on both
> sides of the atlantic, that most clear concepts of technical invention 
> include software patents.  I like the thought that software turns a
> general purpose machine into a specific purpose machine, the
> combination of which always achieves a technical effect.

I get it now!

A guitar chord turns a general-purpose guitar into a machine for
playing one combination of notes.  All guitar chords achieve a
technical effect and should be patentable -- even though a new chord
can be independently discovered by many people noodling around on
guitars with a small investment of money and time, chord patents
can prevent future musicians from writing new songs, and the whole
idea will set guitar playing back a hundred years.  It's a simple
matter of logic.  Don't you European Communists understand logic?

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