Ramanraj K said on Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:11:40AM +0530,:
in India join together to form an association. While software cos. have NASSCOM, software user groups have no corresponding association that
NASSCOM is much more than a mere industry body. It is also a copyright society, recognised by the Govt. under the Copyright Act. It means that NASSCOM can enforce copyrights of its members, and take money from its victims, which of course, like experiences of all copyright societies all over the world, much less than expenses of copyright enforcement.
It of course, does so many other things than conduct surveys.
The free software community cannot, of course, rely on NASSCOM to enforce our copyrights. Hence, need for _assigning_ copyrights to bodies like FSF.