Comment by downboots
13 hours ago
Great! Math tools for everyone.
what's stopping some Mathematica employee from taking the source code and having an agent port it. Or even reconstruction from the manual. Who owns an algorithm?
Will everything get copied eventually?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development_Corp._v._Bor...., a software clone does not infringe software copyright. So yeah, I'd guess sooner or later everything is going be cloned …
> what's stopping some employee from something like Mathematica from taking the source code and having an agent port it to open source
Laws against theft. Also the same reason employees don't release the code on pastebin or something.
> Who owns an algorithm?
The org or person who was granted the software patent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
> Will everything get copied eventually?
If we're lucky. More likely everything bitrots as technical capabilities are lost. Slowly at first, then quickly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
honestly one of my favorite Wikipedia articles. It's silly, but it is a logical conclusion to the existence of secret information.
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B1
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45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B3
Which patent are you referring to?
Any patent. The question was who owns a (arbitrary) algorithm. The elaborated answer is that nobody “owns” an algorithm (i.e. has intellectual property rights to it) without a patent: in USA and many other jurisdictions, patents are the IP tool relating to algorithms.