--- Mayank Sharma geekybodhi@rediffmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 Frederick Noronha(FN) wrote :
"Software-Patents" in Europe: The threat prevails
Soon the European Parliament and the Council of
Ministers will >againdecide about the legalisation and adoption of so-called "software
patents" in Europe, which are already used by large
companies in other >countries to put competitors out of business. This can lead to the >termination of manysoftware projects such as KNOPPIX, at least within >Europe,
<snip> This is very disturbing (again). But I am a little unclear on what the end result might be. Maybe Mahesh could clear up.
a) What's the status of India and Software Patents? b) Is Software Patent a geographical bounbdary bound thing? I mean would Klaus be able to host Knoppix on (say) an Indian server and distribute here?
Mayank,The idea of Software Patent or related laws of other countries does seems to have their effects here,maybe its fear of laws/acts rather than wheather we are subjected to them.The recent PlayFair issue (thought they were different laws than pantent law) has given us a livid example.
The major question 'can we handle such legal problems here'.We don't have any EFF like organisation here.
I would like ask the two legal eagles on the list Pai and Ramanraj if we can remedy this.
TIA
--arky PS:BTW did anyone patent 'press the key to type' (as on keyboard) ?
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