Re: patenting colimits?

[Dusko Pavlovic <dusko@kestrel.edu>]

[sorry, i just noticed this]

On May 26, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Zinovy Diskin wrote:

> impressive examples, such as the extremely successful Eclipse project
> http://www.eclipse.org, (btw, Eclipse is partly based on categorical
> ideas that engineers developed/reinvented from scratch).

i designed two tools which people who built them built on top of
eclipse, and i must admint that i managed to completely miss those
categorical ideas. eclipse is very handy, but some simple class
hierarchies often become unrecognizable in its straitjacket. i am
probably not the only one who would be curious to learn more about
category theory behind eclipse :)

> Another
> example is the use of open source software for commercial products by
> such giants as IBM.

i hope that you are right that it is a good thing that IBM supports
the open source. i also hope that it is a good thing that Exxon,
Chevron and BP support the alternative sources of energy, and that
Philip Morris supports the teen culture.

-- dusko


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