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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Copyright for "simulating halt decider" by Olcott for many years
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 08:49:51 -0600
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On 3/3/2025 2:59 AM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
> Op 03.mrt.2025 om 03:59 schreef olcott:
>> On 3/2/2025 6:42 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 3/2/25 9:18 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 3/2/2025 3:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-03-02 07:45:26 +0000, joes said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:28:14 +0000 schrieb Mr Flibble:
>>>>>>> Stop stealing my idea: it is Copyright 2022 Mr Flibble.
>>>>>> May I note that useless or wrong ideas are not patentable.
>>>>>
>>>>> No patent was claimed, only copyright. But copyright does not 
>>>>> protect ideas,
>>>>> only particular presentations of those ideas, to some extent.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For example the term "simulating halt decider" and
>>>> "simulating termination analyzer" have been copyrighted
>>>> by me for many years. I do this to establish academic
>>>> credit for these underlying ideas.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can't be, You can't "Copyright" words, only creative works.
>>>
>>> Your papers on the topic can be, but not the terms.
>>>
>>> Terms can be protected under "Trademark", but that has a cost to 
>>> register, and also you have to show a comercial purpose, and can't be 
>>> just an ordinary term of art that describes your thing.
>>>
>>> So, if you paid a lawyer to actually copyright the terms, you wasted 
>>> money and got had. Just like if some lawyer suggested that you could 
>>> get a copyright on such a term.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That every reference to the term "simulating halt decider"
>> in a Google search pulls up pages and pages of me establishes
>> that I am the creator of the notion of a "simulating halt decider"
> Ha ha ha. As if not being found by Google proves something.

It utterly refutes anyone else that claims to have created
this idea at a latter date that the dates of my words found
on the pages and pages of link. Computer Science professor
Eric Hehner came up with seed of this idea many years ago.

> My great great great great great grandfather cannot be found by Google, 
> so he never existed. Ha ha ha. My first ancestor that is found by Google 
> must have been a special creation. Ha ha ha.

My Great Granfather's oldest brother Henry Steele Olcott
was the most famous American Buddhist that is still celebrated
In Sri Lanka today traced Olcott heritage all the way back
to one of the founders of Harford Connecticut.

https://www.amazon.com/Descendants-Thomas-Olcott-Settlers-Connecticut/dp/9354415369 


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