Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016 schrieb KatolaZ:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:38:52AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 8. Dezember 2016 schrieb Rick Moen:
> > > So, banning software patents is difficult, because of the ease of
> > > instantiating software in hardware.
> >
> > On the contrary, it's quite easy: what ever can be implemented using a turing machine is not patentable.
> >
>
> That would include also all digital hardware ;) It wouldn't be too
> bad, indeed...

No, it would not. You cannot implement e.g. an array of transistors on a turing machine, but you can implement a turing machine on an array of transistors :-)

Nik



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