,----[ Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org ] | These reports are good news, but they don't mean we have won. If | the old patent law is allowing software patents in, keeping it | unchanged won't keep them out. | | We have to do something more. But we have lost the chance to try to | use this patent bill to do it. Ramanraj thinks these patents are | invalid and that the law is being misapplied. Is there a way to | convince the patent office of that? Should we go to court and see? | Or should we hope that doubts about validity restrain the patent | holders from using their patents against Indian software developers | and users? `----
One way I know is by deliberately writing free software code to violate these patents - "civil disobedience". If there are legal implications, I will naturally end up in the court. This will help us gather enough attention and support to launch a nation wide protest against software patents. I won't give up till these patents are invalidated. I will try this approach as a last resort.