Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--4fb8df-In the US, software patents ha/en

In the US, software patents have led directly to business method patents. What does this mean? A business method is basically how you make decisions about what to do in the business. And in the past, these decisions were made by humans but now sometimes they are made by computers, and that means they are carried out by software, and that means the decision policies can be patented. Software patents imply business method patents and business procedure patents. The result is that any business could find itself, you know, once they decide &ldquo;we're going to automate the way we carry out our procedures,&rdquo; now they get sued with a software patent.