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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT |
The execution of software certainly is "a process". The process is
the instruction loop, and the hardware which executes it was invented decades
ago.
Different software is just different input to this same, universal RASP
algorithm (the instruction loop). Why should that ever deserve a patent? It
shouldn't. It's exactly the same as patenting "using a calculator to
evalaute this specific math formula", and thereby preventing anybody from
using the math formula without paying your patent tax. Its disgusting.
Any patent on "using certain software on a general purpose computer"
(of which there are many thousands) is GARBAGE and should never have been
granted. That's what we are complaining about when we complain about software
patents. They are vague, useless and they use sophistry to pretend they are
claiming a "specific machine" which is really just "any use of
this software on a general purpose computer to accomplish a certain
function". That's way too broad to deserve monopoly protection, and the
past two decades of allowing it have caused increasing waste and friction from
patent trolls and even legitimate companies suing each other or extracting
patent rents from each other.
Its all a giant waste that profits nobody except the lawyers (and some big
companies who can use it to squash their smaller competitors, even though they
have to put up with being patent-trolled and so on).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 06:05 AM EDT |
| Start with the paragraph beginning
'The functions of software
' if you don't also want to know why patenting the functions of software is
illegal. ---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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