Quoting Clarke Sideroad ([email protected]): > I believe software should not be patent-able although could/should be > protected under a shortened copyright term at worst.
It used to be the case that software was not patentable. The consequence was that, e.g., the patent on Diffie-Hellman encryption was acquired through creating a bespoke physical computing device that embodied the algorithm, and patenting the methods used in that device, instead. So, banning software patents is difficult, because of the ease of instantiating software in hardware. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
