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- From: Flemming Bjerke <flem@bjerke.dk>
- To: Patent Forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] You have rights.. Software Patents are Illegal
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:49:23 +0200
Fredag 14 maj 2004 13:05 wrote Jonas Maebe about Re: [Patents] You have
rights.. Software Patents are Illegal:
> With you view, a story is also completely physical, as is a financial
> management technique.
Well, I did not say that. I just said that in a computer, there is nothing
but
matter.
> You have to see the distinction with the means
> with which the information is stored/processed, and the information
> itself (which is completely independent of those means).
But, in a computer, there is no such thing as information in itself. There is
only information which is stored or processed - and it is matter.
In a wider context, i.e. semiotics, this point is an complex and unsettled
issue. One stance is that for humans the meaning of signs only exists when
signs (signifiers) are expressed or read. Even the existence of meaning has
been questioned (Derrida) (I think that is far too radical).
So, I agree with you that the political arguments is "much easier to
understand and also much more important in real life" than the ontological
arguments.
Flemming
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