> Indian Philosohical view?? > If Indian spirituality and mysticism is your definition -> > > copyright -> ownership > > Did we ever talked of owning anything amidst this 'maya' and 'mithya'?? > > ;-) > > anand
excellent point, anand. we tend to gloss over the indian and indic-vision on ownership, copyrights, and sharing knowledge. venky from redhat has spoken, blogged, and otherwise written several times about this disconnect. vandana shiva of naudanya has also done considerable work in this area. sometimes i feel india is a sleeping giant, having forgotten who it is, where it comes from, the intangible riches it has shared with the civilizations of the world, and the value-system it nurtured and brought forth through thousands of years. would self-remembrance inspire a revelation in the copyright and patents think? profound question of the day: do we mistakenly believe that software has nothing to do with culture? ask microsoft no why they had to hire former secretary of state henry kissinger for handling the china markets for them. read more in this article "how microsoft conquered china" http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/ in russia, microsoft created a campaign based on russia's greatest literary authors using them as metaphors and examples to sensitize people on making unauthorised copies of intellectual work. here, check it out. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/microsoft/tellastory/ i often wonder, who would microsoft or the bsa or other supportive agencies, hire in india, so our culture may happily get sensitized to their issues ;-) :-) niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
