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Originally Posted by mrm1
How would the law stand here. I havnt copied anyones work, downloaded any software, all the code would have been randomly generated by a piece of software I had writen.
Just a thought ?
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I think if there was a patent on that code, then to use it you would have to pay the royalty fees. A short while ago, there was a major who-ha about European software patents, many people (including me) opposed them because it is so easy for two people to quite independantly write the same piece of code without any copying etc. It basically stunts the growth of software.
The mechanism you described is sometimes used in AI, it only produces really really simple programs though
