Dear Prabir
It is clear that software patenting will have huge adverse impact on
free software. hence FOSSCOMM cannot ignore it. I am not able to
understand why FOSSCOMM should not engage with this issue?
What are possible actions?
regards
Guru
prabir wrote:
2009/8/5 Ajay Pal Singh Atwal <[email protected]>:
2009/8/5 Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 20:02, jtd<[email protected]> wrote:
Only an idiot will commit a folly of proposing and approving multiple
standards when there exists an opportunity of avoiding it.d
That assumes that there are costs involved in multiple standards,
which is what I'm seeking to question (not necessarily to refute).
Fortunately in India the cost would not arise out of use of standards
(thanks to no software patents in India) but the cost would be from
the software that work on these standards.
snip
There is no software patents in India is still not settled as an
issue. The Patents office has accepted patents which can be construed
as software patents and has also put a draft a manual which allows
software patents if it is a technical application, whatever that
means. This is quite close to EPO provisions. I do believe that this
is a longer term issue that the FOSS community needs to engage with,
but some here believe that it should not be part of a common minimum
agenda.
This leaves two ways of dealing with it -- we deal with it outside
FOSSCOMM or we consider this to be an interest only of some of the
members and form a sub group of people interested in this issue.
Prabir
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