[Fsf-friends] Re: user group assn.
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil@vsnl.net
Sun Oct 17 12:19:38 IST 2004
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.
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