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| Authored by: mrisch on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 11:11 AM EDT |
Yes, this is a pretty good summary - except I say "could" be
patentable, not should.
And I am listening to the answers. I'm just not convinced,
because most of the answers are ones that others have made in
other technology fields. Of course, maybe that means that
patents just don't work, but if that's true, it isn't because
of software generally.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 11:23 AM EDT |
There is provably no such thing. It has been mathematically proven, that
anything which is computable, can be computed by a Universal Turing machine.
The same proofs apply to real-world computers.
The general-purpose computer is designed to be able to execute every possible
program which could ever be written and programmed into it. There is no such
thing as a program "not anticipated by" the design of the
general-purpose computer. This was understood at least sixty years ago by
people like Alan Turing.
The fact the courts and lawyers STILL don't understand it, shows that they
simply aren't competent to be administering this patent system. Computers are
incredibly important to the modern world, and yet the people making the rules
still don't understand *the most basic facts* about what they are and how they
work. It's shameful.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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