Software patents take a beating at the US Supreme Court

Posted Jul 4, 2014 22:18 UTC (Fri) by jubal (subscriber, #67202)
In reply to: Software patents take a beating at the US Supreme Court by marcH
Parent article: Software patents take a beating at the US Supreme Court

By nature software (or hardware) development is an activity orders of magnitude more "social" than plumbing or surgery (Surgery is actually one of the very least; a significant number of surgeons think they sit somewhere between God and the rest of us - but I digress)

A little nitpick: surgeons might be not exactly social and may think they're gods or godesses incarnated, but all of them have to be very efficient communicators. Surgery is a teamwork in the strictest sense of the word and requires constant and effective communication – there are no lone stars in the operating theatre, even if they enjoy behaving in a sligthly operatic style.