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Talk:Why software is different

Revision as of 03:15, 4 December 2010 by Jose X (talk | contribs) (This page has serious quality problems: Here is how I tried to improve the "Abstraction" section...)

This page has serious quality problems

There is so much text and so much stuff of dubious relevance, I couldn't find where I should add my new idea.

I couldn't see if there is already a section that discusses that idea. The headings are unclear, the content of the sections is vague, there's stuff that's ontopic for the wiki but should be on another page...

I'll have to come back and do a top-down review of this to merge the duplicate stuff and remove the stuff that should be (and already is, I think) on other parts of this wiki. Ciaran 10:16, 25 November 2010 (EST)

I rewrote the "Abstraction" section (with the "rewrite" box) as 3 sections without any "rewrite" comment.
The discussion left under "Abstraction" is unclear to me. Are there examples that can help clarify this? How does it differ from say copyright infringement or patent infringement of a car?
"Complexity abstraction" covers a form of abstracting that is a part of the patent process and is very troublesome for software.
"Intangible" places software in the category of many things that have not been ordinarily accepted as patentable. I listed properties that help highlight how these differ from the tangibles. Jose X 02:15, 4 December 2010 (EST)