software patents are evil

Posted Sunday, November 19, 2000, at 03:28PM by Eric Richardson

So apparently UniSys has decided to wave their GIF patents a little more. This time they've made Dupont quit distributing ImageMagick. When will the patent office wake up to the fact that you shouldn't be able to patent algorithms? It's all just math, people. You can't patent math.

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