Re: [Patents] "Further technical effect"

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

El Sat, May 17, 2003 at 06:46:17PM +0200, Hartmut Pilch deia:
> > I don't think it was *me* who was basing their position against software
> > patents on the claim that software creation required no knowledge or
> > experimentation about the outside world.
> 
> Nobody is basing his position against swpat on such a claim anyway.
> 
> 

Why not?. Lack of experimentation implies no new knowledge on
conttrollable uses of forces of nature. Programming requires no
experimentation on the material world, it requires reasoning about the
formal model of a computer and about the meaning of the data you are
handling and what you want to do with it (knowing the meaning of the
data usually requires knowledge on the "outside world", but no
experimentation).

But anyway, I don't understand the initial Greg message anyway, 
was he asking for NLP code so he could patch his language generation
routines?.

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Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org