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This is depressing for the average engineer who work hard all the life. I was writing 3d software for Intel, Nvidia and few others in 1990's, and when I became lazy to learn more math every day I been re-selling some russian's algorithms later (got some guy who was doing soviet rocket control programs before, lost them when they moved to Canada). There was lots of math, but no one paid more than a few $1000's for any math and algo's anywhere, since you can't easily patent that... the round borders in an icons design of Apple is easier to patent than a math formula, apparently. Also you can not keep any code or math secret, since you can decompile whatever executables (java is even easier). And let you hide that in a server side, are you sure anyone don't copy the file out. Finally, with a few million as prize, you find lots of 17 year old kids rewriting whatever algorithm after you see one in action.
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