Software Patents

I'll start off with a notice to those who would say that I am out to
undermine all the work of programmers everywhere, in hopes that I may
receive a free lunch: I am a programmer, I understand what it is to
see a project through to its completion and hope for it's continued
success. A free ride has never been my goal. Furthermore, it is
another misstatement to say that abolishing software patents would
somehow make software available at zero cost.

Most contemopary people are unaware remain unaware of the nature of software when related to communications in general. Software is not some ghostly image conjoured by a computer wizard; It encompasses a much broader realm. Software is in essence language. It can be translated into innumerable sequences of differing interpetations.

rm -rf /var/log/

int main(int argc, char **argc)
{
printf("Hello World!\n");
}