Why this obsession with patents? Why? Patents for industrial and engineering designs, I understand. But patents for algorithms and software procedures and computer applications?
Maybe I should have become a lawyer like my dad secretly wished (before he realised-- happily, I think -- I had a bigger knack for maths and such).
Well here's what Computer Science's Yoda (that's what he is to me) has to say about software patents: Prof Donald Knuth's 1994 Letter to the Patent Office.
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