On Fri 09 Jan 2004 18:50, James Heald wrote:
Is this a new linguistic formula to look out for, emphasising the "protection" of software inventions, and leaving carefully blurred the question of whether this requires "patent protection" or "copyright protection" ?
Note the assumption that software is an invention in the first place, which is something I know I disagree with in itself. If people start thinking software is "invented", rather than "written" (as I as a mathematically literate software developer think of it), then it will be much easier to argue for patenting.