[Fsf-friends] Patents amendment bill

[Vijay Kumar Bagavath Singh]

The following news articles suggest that the patents amendment bill, could possibly introduce software patents in India. If this is so, why aren't we(FSF-India) fighting it?

Quoting from http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&autono=176422&leftnm=lmnu2&lselect=0&leftindx=2

The Cabinet is expected to clear the promulgation of an Ordinance for the introduction of a product patents regime, which will also cover embedded software and hardware, next Wednesday.

Quoting from http://athens-olympics-2004.newkerala.com/?action=fullnews&id=44168

"Fair use provisions in the copyright law that permits reverse engineering is not permitted under the patent law," said G. Devarajan, general secretary of the All India Forward Bloc.
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"This highly retrograde step would kill the fledgling open source movement in our country, particularly in our universities and institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology," a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said.


Vijay

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