Thinksheet for Position Paper #4:  What Is a Computer Program?
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1. A special-purpose    |      |                   
   computer is          |      |                   
   essentially a hard-  |      |                   
   wired computer       |      |                   
   program              |      |                   
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2. Such a hardwired     |      |                   
   computer program     |      |                   
   is a physical machine|      |                   
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3. Physical machines    |      |                   
   can be patented      |      |                   
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4. Such a hardwired     |      |                   
   computer program  	|      |                   
   can be patented      |      |                   
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 1,2,3/.'.4 is valid    |      |                   
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5. The printed text of  |      |                   
   a computer program   |      |                   
   is a "literary work" |      |                   
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   copyright law        |      |                   
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6. Literary works can be|      |                   
   copyrighted          |      |                   
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7. The printed text of  |      |                   
   a computer program   |      |                   
   can be copyrighted   |      |                   
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 5,6/.'.7 is valid      |      |                   
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8. Nothing can be both  |      |                   
   patented and 	|      |                   
   copyrighted          |      |                   
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9. There's no 		|      |                   
   computational or  	|      |                   
   other difference 	|      |                   
   between the hardwired|      |                   
   computer program and |      |                   
   its textual 		|      |                   
   counterpart          |      |                   
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10. Computer programs 	|      |                   
    can be both patented|      |                   
    and copyrighted     |      |                   
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 8,9/.'.10 is valid     |      |                   
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