Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--24b1b9-Of course, we in computer scie/en

Of course, we in computer science know that this is just a rule, you can generalize anything from one to more than one. It's the most obvious principle there is. Every time you write a subroutine, that's what you're doing. So this is one of the systematic reasons why the patent system produces, and then upholds patents that we would all say are ridiculously obvious. You can't assume, just because it's ridiculously obvious, that they wouldn't be upheld by a court. They may be legally valid despite the fact that are utterly stupid.