Comment on Software Patent Abolition PetitionparentComments−gruseom14yWhy should it not be treated the way a mathematical result is? People invest time and effort into proving theorems too. It seems to me that software is ideas, like math is.−huhtenberg14yPerhaps because math is a fundamental science and therefore funded in a completely different way?−gruseom14yYet your own algorithm example is a lot closer to math than to, say, a typical web app.
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Why should it not be treated the way a mathematical result is? People invest time and effort into proving theorems too. It seems to me that software is ideas, like math is.
Perhaps because math is a fundamental science and therefore funded in a completely different way?
Yet your own algorithm example is a lot closer to math than to, say, a typical web app.