[Fsf-friends] Re: user group assn.

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

--- "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil@vsnl.net> wrote:

> 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.
Hello Ramanraj and Pai,

   As pointed out by Pai, NASSCOM has a charter to be
watchdog for legal use of software, it an assocation
that _enforceses_.An organisation that works for Free
Software should have its goal to educate not enforce.

Comments please ? 

Cheers

--arky 
  


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