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| Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 09:24 AM EDT |
The original software patent was the setuid bit in UNIX.
AT&T worded it in terms of a device to get it past the PTO, otherwise it
would have been rejected.
The RSA patent is also a good example of why software shouldn't be patented. It
delayed use by nearly 15 years, and only succeeded when it was analyzed and
developed overseas (Switzerland and New Zealand as I recall). After that
development it became common overseas.
I myself was persuaded by my advisor to not work on it back in 1975 as it would
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| Authored by: PolR on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
But the large scale impact on real-life started with these cases. Before that
the patents were there but they were seldom asserted or litigated in practice.
Most people could pretend they weren't there. Business models didn't rely on
them. Large successful successful corporations were built based on copyrights.
The major innovations on the Internet like the TCP/IP stack and the the world
wide web were developed without reliance on patents.
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