“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
I thought you were being a shitbag by bringing this up in a thread about his death.
But the more I read, I realized you were wrong…for not being more aggressive in denouncing him.
Fuck. This. Guy.
Goetz disapproved of the software development practices in the 1950s and 1960s, where software was not sold and was instead given away and exchanged gratis. He argued that there is no difference between hardware and software, and that if hardware is patentable, software deserves the same treatment:[1]:8
He viewed software as an industry that should become commercial like other types of companies and disagreed with IBM’s practice of putting their software in the public domain. In his view, patents would spearhead the commercialization of software:[1]:9
I thought you were being a shitbag by bringing this up in a thread about his death.
But the more I read, I realized you were wrong…for not being more aggressive in denouncing him.
Fuck. This. Guy.