Yes. Except...

Post #284,696 by folkert 5/15/07 7:36:52 AM Reply	Yes. Except... In your recent response: And more patents than God. I do not doubt that Microsoft's lawyers have nightmares about this large blue company pulling out a patent covering "Using a computer to write software programs". That patent is going to be more along the lines of: "Using a computer in ON mode vs OFF mode." or "A computer reads 1s and 0s as defined by God." both being Circa 1960. One can only hope. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0`
Post #284,711 by Andrew Grygus 5/15/07 11:02:37 AM Reply	There's only so deep they can go . . . . . because logic gates were invented by, and named "gates" by, one Nikola Tesla, who was not employed by a large blue company at the time. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #284,719 by folkert 5/15/07 3:34:09 PM Reply	That would be the OTHER Big Giant Corp not being MS... in the Patent World. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0`
Post #284,739 by Ashton 5/15/07 10:09:31 PM Reply	"logic roots in weaving loom" gets 500k hits And a 'gate' could well be a ~equivalent concept, re separating weft from warp - starting with Jacquard. Seems to me that - digital logic just may prove the undoing of the whole 'pseudo-science of the law'[Fred Rodell, Harvard Law Sch.], via the focus on patents: the arbitrariness of "expected lifetimes" of "inventors" VS overall societal costs (perhaps relating that 'cost' to premature deaths .. even of ... the little kiddies.) Not that bipeds are any nearer to achieving scale and relativity, or facing this humongous muddle of duelling interests, as an ingredient, say -- in all this, 'let's keep the temperature down!' (mere survival stuff.) We are soo funny. Pi to a trillion places / and a shitty public health delivery system / then, The Hum-Vee as 'status symbol'. I can't wait for the debate on origins of [link\|http://www.fibtex.lodz.pl/absten47.htm\| fuzzy logic]. cf. "Velocity Control of Weft Insertion on Air Jet Looms by Fuzzy Logic"

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