On 04-Dec-06, at 5:40 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
or that the indian software industry was built on pirated copies of borland c compilers. (at least in the early days - i don't know how widespread piracy within the software industry is today...)
At the World Information City conference in Bangalore last November, Shaina Anand and Lawrence Liang made a video on this. Lawrence has on several occasions spoken for how piracy is actually good for innovation, with examples including Hollywood and T-Series, both of which started as pirate outfits.
See, for example, this presentation made at Dictionary of War conference in Graz, Austria, this October:
http://dictionaryofwar.org/en-dict/v2v/Hostis_Humani_Generis_- _Lawrence_Liang
-- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/
