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Software Patents Stopped in India

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-means-no dept.

piyushranjan writes "Indian parliament deleted the section from the patents bill regrading the software patents as left parties prevailed over the Government on the issue. This may be a major victory for free software foundation(fsf) which has been lobbying hard against the bill."

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  1. Re:Of course they did... by Rattencremesuppe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I am really really interested to know as to how havin g no software patents will effect the "outsourcing revenue stream".

    Outsourcing makes sense only if it is cheaper than doing the work inhouse.

    No SW patents == no additional cost for IP departments, lawyers, lawsuits etc. == less cost for a project

    less cost == more attractive for outsourcing.

  2. Re:The situation in India is... by rsidd · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It should be interesting for you to know that they are not ok with software patents, but ok with copyrights.

    There's only one reason for that. Most of them are Bengali, and view Rabindranath Tagore as a sort of fragile god who must be protected; so they fought for decades to prevent his work from entering the public domain. Tagore became India's Mickey Mouse -- the excuse to extend copyright limits ad nauseam (happily, no longer, but a lot of damage has been done already).