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Story: Kodak wins Java patent case

Digital Image Processing is one of my area of interests.
How the hell does did KODAK develop all their imaging
applications using algorithms developed by others not invented by them. However the common algorithms in Image processing were not patented by inventors but they freely published them in peer review journals for companies as KODAK to read and use them for technology development. An example is that Kodak uses Fuzzy Logic, in product development , but who invented this computing theory? Obviously , Lotfi Zadeh, but professor Zadeh did not patent this technology. It is the good for the world and the computing field not to patent anything at all because it will restrict the advancement of computing technology. Another example is Laplacian operator based on Laplace theory from calculus is used by Kodak for developing imaging application. Did Kodak invent Laplace operator ? No, it was invented by a French mathematician over more thatn 100 years ago. I can go on and on and on about mathematical algorithms that Kodak use in their product developement which were not invented by them but developed by mathematicians from the wider world of academic and also scientists from the last century or so. Lets stop this crap of patenting software methods because it hinders the advance of technology.

Cheers,
SP.

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