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Old 05-05-2010
Patent Absurdity
Patents are generally held to be granted on devices, or inventions.  In recent years, United States patents have been granted on processes, and even software.  "Patent Absurdity" is a half hour video outlining the dangers and difficulties surrounding the granting of software patents.  The interviews take place around the "Bilski" case appeal before the Supreme Court.  (The "Bilski" case decision is generally held to strike down software patents, but is still the subject of a good deal of debate.)

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neqn

NEQN(1)                                                       General Commands Manual                                                      NEQN(1)

NAME

       neqn - format equations for ascii output

SYNOPSIS

       neqn [eqn options]

DESCRIPTION

       The neqn program is actually just a shell script which invokes the eqn(1) command with the ascii output device.

       Note that eqn does not support low-resolution, typewriter-like devices (although it may work adequately for very simple input).

SEE ALSO

       eqn(1)

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission  is  granted  to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
       preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that  the
       entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission  is  granted  to  copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
       versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation  instead  of  in  the
       original English.

Groff Version 1.22.3                                             10 February 2018                                                          NEQN(1)