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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:48 PM EDT |
The general purpose computer was explicitly and deliberately designed to be able
to run any possible mathematical algorithm. (Mathematical algorithm ==
software). There was a lot of mathematical work put into this; this is what the
stuff about "Universal Turing Machines" is all about.
This is not just an example of the manufacturer saying "use it for whatever
you want". The general purpose computer was explicitly developed for the
*purpose* of running all possible mathematical algorithms. (Failure of a
general purpose computer to run a mathematical algorithm is considered a bug
which needs to be fixed; perhaps by adding more memory, or whatever.)
Attempting to claim that somehow there is a new machine involved, or a novel use
of a machine, when you are using the machine *exactly for its original design
purpose*, is really bogus, yet that is what practically all software patents do.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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