On 2026-05-22, CGS <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-05-21, Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Now, innovative, non-obvious processes can be protected by patents, >> not copyrights. But most software doesn't contain an innovative process, >> just a new combination of known processes. > > What would be an example of an innovative process? >
The first software patent was issued June 19, 1968 to Martin Goetz for a data sorting algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent Seems kind of vague, in software, what could possibly be patented that couldn't just as well be copyrighted. Mais enfin.
