From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4879 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ronnie Brown" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: patenting colimits? Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:35:58 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Ronnie Brown" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243265685 9954 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 15:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon May 25 17:34:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8cCC-0007z1-LL for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:36 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1M8bfD-0005Wb-QG for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00:32 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4879 Archived-At: Larry Lambe passed on the following url to me for comment and I thought = it would be of interest to others on the category theory list, with more = expertise than I. I have not had time to study it, but on the face of = it, it seems like patenting mathematics, and to be deplored intensely. = Am I wrong?=20 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6964037.html Title: Method and apparatus for determining colimits of hereditary diagrams=20 Document Type and Number: United States Patent 6964037=20 A computer-implemented method and system for determining colimits of = hereditary diagrams. A user specifies a diagram of diagram and specifies = performance of a colimit operation. Once the colimit is performed, the = name of the colimit is added to the hereditary diagram. The described = embodiment supports diagrams of diagrams, also called hierarchical = diagrams. Ronnie http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6964037.html