In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Roger Schlafly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >"Lee Hollaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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). > >There were also software patents long before that. Samuel F. B. Morse >got US Patent 1647 in 1840 for the Morse Code.
But the one I cited is for "software" as we normally use the term now -- something to control a computer -- and actually contains a program implementing the method in 7090 assembly language (which the printed wrong, putting a label on every line). And it doesn't try to hide what it is. Note the title: "Text Matching ALGORITHM". _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
