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Re: Proprietary software impedes the progress of knowledge?
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John Hasler |
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Re: Proprietary software impedes the progress of knowledge? |
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Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:50:48 -0500 |
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mike3 writes:
> Some "proprietary" programs no doubt contain very powerful and clever
> algorithms for stuff. One time I heard someone say that in some
> professional proprietary animation package that "mathematical geniuses"
> were required for its creation, which means no doubt that revolutionary
> or very impressive matheamtics migh tbe in there.
Yes, considerable doubt. Most likely you were listening to a salesman
trying to sell the package.
> But it's kept locked up by proprietary business models.
Reverse-engineer it.
> Never mind that suck advances in mathematics could potentially do much
> more...
There may be a few clever algorithms being kept as trade secrets but I
seriously doubt that any significant mathematical advances are. That's
just marketing hype.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA