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The discussion at hand is whether or not software should be patent protected. With whether software falls into the exceptions of what's not allowed to be patentable such as math and abstract concepts.

You seem to be discussing something else entirely different:

The paper and ink are irrelevant.

Let's say you used numbers to create ascii art on a sheet of paper that draws out a Unicorn. I'd say that's pretty artistic and there definitely was artistic activity involved when you were creating that picture.

But no part of the process of you putting pencil to paper and drawing an image of a Unicorn is patentable.

So it really does appear you are discussing something other then whether or not software should be patentable. Especially when you insist patentable items are irrelevant and non-patentable concepts (artistic activity) is the point of what you tried to say.

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• I think your a bit lost - I'm definitely lost on what you are discussing - Authored by: danielpf on Wednesday, December 05 2012 @ 12:33 PM EST