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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
> One thing the pro-software patent folk can't insist is that it is physical
All those boxes of floppy discs Fedexed around the globe with
Windows 95 were physical alright. Just think about one falling
on your head. Sure, as software got more complex they moved
onto CDs in nice vinyl binders, still something substantial you
can hold in your hand.
Now your task is to tease our learned friends gently over the line
to the software that is downloaded from London server to Lima
client in the eye of a wink. Ask them where the physicality went.
Make them think about the paradigm. And make sure they
understand the software itself did not change form.
Likening it to ink on paper isn't good enough. Webster's dictionary
is absolutely physical. Lawyers love documents printed on paper
just for their physicality, and they do not understand how that
physicality can disappear when the document becomes a computer
file. In New Zealand we've recently had some bizarre requests for
unintended recipients of emails to "return the document".
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