All of human IP may actually belong to many extinct species. Where does that leave M$ in claiming to have invented or, more likely bought the rights, to all al-gore-rithims known to (wo)man.
For a poster who has actually used a formula to explain a point, I believe that GE just likes to play dumb (uneducated, stupid etc.) for some, as yet unknown, purpose.
To be so pedantic about the use or non-use of of the word "invent" wrt to computer code is ridiculous.
Our task is to flush out the reason (not that it could possibly BE reasonable OR rational) for such behavior (maybe he's on the staff at AdTI as Brown's research assistant?).
If this is all you have to chime in, you might as well keep it to yourself. As to the rest of your post, it was ignored, being certainly worthless, anyway.