Judges Debate Patents and the Nature of Software

Post » Tue May 21, 2013 6:07 pm

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/1948209/judges-debate-patents-and-if-new-software-makes-a-computer-a-new-machine

So if a computer becomes a new machine when it loads new software, does that mean a new musical instrument is created every time someone plays a different song?

This is why software patents need to die. They make no damn sense.

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Post » Tue May 21, 2013 12:18 pm

Reminds me of the Ship of Theseus.

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