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Authored by: stegu on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 01:07 PM EST |
Or, does the use of a baseball bat to smash a
pumpkin into a small pile of putrid debris
comprise a nonobvious and inventive step over
using it to hit a baseball?
Computers are programmable by design.
I "build" nothing when I program. The process
of compilation and linking of a program is
commonly referred to as "building", but the
process is all manipulation of data. Nothing
is actually built. When I program, I do not
invent stuff. I come up with ideas, some of
them hopefully bright and non-obvious, and
express them in a programming language. Then
I let the computer execute my program in the
manner it was designed to do.
Thinking that the computer somehow changes
in this process is naive and ignorant, something
a three-year-old would do, but legal debates
should not be based on how small children view
the world, should they?
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