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		gruseom on Nov 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Patent Abolition Petition Why should it not be treated the way a mathematical result is? People invest time and effort into proving theorems too. It seems to me that software is ideas, like math is.

huhtenberg on Nov 2, 2011 [–]

Perhaps because math is a fundamental science and therefore funded in a completely different way?

gruseom on Nov 2, 2011 | [–]

Yet your own algorithm example is a lot closer to math than to, say, a typical web app.

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