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by ajb
4179 days ago
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"the patent system is (for most of the computer arts where I spend my time) not very useful as a store of knowledge"..."This is due to the incentives" Actually, the problem is more fundamental than that. For thing like medicines, the standard naming scheme for chemicals means you can reliably find patents covering a particular compound. Rice's theorem [1] means that that this cannot be done for software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem |
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