Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Doug Mentohl on Friday 07 March 2008 15:11 : \____
>
>> Acacia 'Research' enters into license agreement with Toshiba covering
>> patents of Image Resolution Technology ..
>>
>>
> http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/BREAKING%20NEWS/1140645/?hcode=relatednews
>
> I wonder when they patented this. Here they are just giving the 'permission' to
> *gasp* do some matrix operations... as in maths they 'own'.
>
> Newton would shed a tear...
>
The whole situation is utterly absurd. Amongst other things, if this
continues, then mathematic research and progress will halt in all
geographies which choose to permit software patents instead of the very
sensible copyright.
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