Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> > [the nature of the universe] is unrelated to the practical differences
> > between design of software and design of physical systems.

> Practical differences which in the world of hardware/software codesign,
> endless numbers of CAD/CAM/CAE etc. systems, differences that are going
> away.  Computing is just another branch of physics and mathematics for
> which software and hardware is its engineereing arms.  Software
> engineering often does not appear to be an engineering because so much
> of it is done so poorly.

Your cosmology is unrelated to the question of what co-design tools mean
for patentability.

As far as the old debate about co-design cosmology is concerned, you might
try Google with the search-word "co-design" and scope limitation to the
site "patents.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/".  I'm sure you will find the same
argument about 20 times.

Or http://swpat.ffii.org/players/aharonian/.  It would be great if someone
could use the time which a further flamewar could cause for creating some
nice text for that page.

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