Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--c98f1f-In many countries there are la/en

In many countries there are laws and court decisions which say that software as such can't be patented, algorithms can't be patented, or &ldquo;mathematical&rdquo; algorithms can't be patented (no one's quite sure what it means for an algorithm to be mathematical or not), and various other criteria which if interpreted naturally would rule out software patents, but the patent offices twist the law to allow them anyway.