software patents are evil

Sunday, November 19, 2000, at 10:28AM

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.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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