> >I don't claim to be a copyright expert, but AFAIK, while an individual
> software
> >package cannot be patented, an ALGORITHM can..... isn't that what the whole
> big
> >thing about GIF code being taken out of shareware programs several years
> ago?
> >
> >Joe Malicki
>
> Wrong. Algorithms are considered truth and cannot be patented. The GIF
> patent was a method patent, patenting a method of compressing data, not an
> algorithm for compressing data.
>
> DS
What's the difference between a method and an algorithm?
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