[sdiy] Is everything digital?

[KA4HJH]

>When the digital computer came about, algorithms had to be
>fashioned to characterize the previously continous varibles as discrete
>quantities.  Now we call them programs.

Just to confuse things even more...

Algorithms (the term is derived--poorly--from Arabic) are patentable,
programs are copyrightable. So in IP terms they're not the same thing at
all.

But then we could stretch this thread on forever, couldn't we? Unless of
course there's no such thing as forever...

-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"When possessing intellectual property becomes a crime only criminals will
possess intellectual property"--Dr. Oscar