1+1 (pat. pending) - Mathematics, Software and Free Speech (Groklaw)

Groklaw has posted a lengthy guest article arguing that software is simply mathematics and should not be subject to patents. "I will now substantiate the idea that software is mathematics. Let's cast aside the effect of the real world semantics on the patentability of mathematics for the moment. I will return to this question when I explain why mathematics is speech. Then I will explain that patenting a mathematical computation of the basis of its semantics is granting exclusive rights on speech. For now the focus is on showing that the patented software method is always a mathematical algorithm."

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