After takin' a swig o' grog, Tim Smith belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> In article
> <102e14ba-c5c3-49fa-9e7e-e726ed83b5d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> nessuno <nessuno7491@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> <Quote>
>> two years ago, Microsoft filed a patent for clustering phylogenetics
>> methods, which have existed for years, and are currently in use by
>> just about anyone who does evolutionary biology. The filing has been
>> compared to attempting to patent multiplication tables, and has the
>> phylogenetics community on edge.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/microsoft-trying-to-patent-techniq
>> ue-for-studying-evolution.ars
>>
>> Pretty soon you'll have to pay for those multiplication tables.
>> Intellectual Property, you know.
>
> Can you point out for us exactly what in the claims there is a problem
> with? You did read the patent, didn't you, so that you would be
> competent to discuss it?
>
> Rob Weir had a great blog entry about why most patent discussions suck:
>
> <http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/08/how-not-to-read-patent.html>
Even the first sentence is salutory enough:
There is perhaps no occasion where one can observe such profound
ignorance, coupled with reckless profligacy, as when a software patent is
discussed on the web.
Dammit, Tim, sometimes you act like a schmuck, and then you act cool
(horoshko) again.
--
The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of
the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at
her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic
Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my
steel through your last meal!'
-- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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