Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. From offline mode to multiplayer to heady questions about ownership, we’re rethinking the way software works. But ...

Martin Goetz, who joined the computer industry in its infancy in the mid-1950s as a programmer working on Univac mainframes and who later received the first U.S. patent for software, died Oct. 10 at ...

“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market. By Richard Sandomir Martin Goetz, who joined ...