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  <title><![CDATA[Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software (Hardcover) ]]></title>
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  <default-description>The field of software is awash in disputes. Market participants and analysts routinely disagree on how computer programs should be produced, marketed, regulated, and sold. On one subject, however, just about everyone can agree: the current intellectual property protection regime for software is a mess. At present, all of the traditional means of delimiting intellectual property--patents, copyrights, and trade secrets--are applied to software in one manner or another. Congress has even invented a new type of law for cases in which these may be insufficient, with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software (Hardcover) </original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ben Klemens]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a great, succinct, and accessible discussion on the proliferation and abuse of software patents and extensions of copyright law.  The author demonstrates that patenting any form of software is the equivalent of patenting a mathematical formula, and the ramifications are far-reaching and almost ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/152776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was confused and poorly written.  I don't know -- maybe I just have a bad attitude (Hawley liked it!?).  The author bastardizes the Curry-Howard isomorphism, one of the more important observations on the connection between formal logic and programming languages (of a very specifi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10322401">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty radical book because it explains in clear language the sordid history and broken idea of software patents.  It's really not bad for a book by a member of a think tank -- Brookings if I recall.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[detailed &amp; complicated but very informative. its a theory that software patents should be invalid.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say... I refer to it all the time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Software patents mostly suck.]]></body>
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