No, and ...

Posted Jun 5, 2009 3:36 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: No, and ... by sepreece
Parent article: Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented (Groklaw)

> So, by analogy, if the code is covered by copyright, should not the process defined by the code be patentable?

Which process would that be? What is being processed here?

The point is that nothing objective (meaning: having physical presence) is being processed here, but an abstract human concept: information. Just like in mathematics.