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by s_dev 853 days ago
Software is just fancy math being executed. Math can't or at least shouldn't be patentable e.g. imagine the absurdity that would ensue if you could patent a number not that that hasn't happened (HD DVD encryption). I'm aware every piece of IP or Copyright can be represented with a really big number (a mp4 file is really just a big number) but it's not the number that's the patentable aspect.
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Hardware is just fancy physics. Medicine is just fancy chemistry.
Math, however, is uniquely identified in the law as non-patentable.
Words are just fancy phonemes.