In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Patenting of Software is no longer up for discussion, it arrived in 1995. >> > >Actually, much much earlier than that. The most famous "software >patent", RSA patent, was granted in 1983.
Actually, much much earlier than that. See United States patent 3,568,156, "Text Matching Algorithm," granted on March 2, 1971, to Kenneth Thompson (who went on to write an operating system of some repute). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
