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Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends
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Lee Hollaar |
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Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends |
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Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:04:53 -0700 (MST) |
In article <1167836741.591620.124310@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
dt@soundmathtech.com writes:
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>robertplattbell@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Patenting of Software is no longer up for discussion, it arrived in 1995.
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>Actually, much much earlier than that. The most famous "software
>patent", RSA patent, was granted in 1983.
Actually, much much earlier than that. See United States patent
3,568,156, "Text Matching Algorithm," granted on March 2, 1971,
to Kenneth Thompson (who went on to write an operating system of
some repute).