2009/12/24 Vickram Crishna <[email protected]>: > I am sure you are right. Under what law and provision do the police, > supported by the BSA, conduct raids on private premises, seize computers and > file criminal charges? I have heard of this happening with both Adobe and MS > users. If (as a country) we do not recognise the legal protection afforded > to MS and Adobe and countless other companies in the USA, then let us > consider instead mounting a newspaper campaign against accusations of > 'piracy' made wrt Indian companies.
Copyrights and patents are two different things with different laws and consequences for violations. We recognize copyrights for software in India and Free Software community's argument is that copyright is enough for protecting authors and there is no need to bring patent also to software. Adobe, Microsoft etc doing raids are for copyright violations, which is illegal under Indian laws. But violating software patents are not illegal. So there is nothing wrong in Microsoft selling Word with the patented features in India. > Between you and me, I think the newspapers would be rather happier if we did > a nice public raid against some big Indian company found to be using the > illegal feature of Word. Or, say, the Indian Supreme Court. We have no role there to play. If at all there is a copyright violation, then it is between the copyright holder and violator. And here the above feature is fully legal. > I agree that we do not want to get involved with TRIPS and traps. However, > it is rather like saying that the bear does not want to get involved with > the trap around his leg. My only argument here is that sometimes, one has to > use the weapon nearest at hand, and what better weapon than the one > annointed by the law already? > "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
