[Fsf-friends] Yet another shameless day in India

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> ]
| These reports are good news, but they don't mean we have won.  If
| the old patent law is allowing software patents in, keeping it
| unchanged won't keep them out.
| 
| We have to do something more.  But we have lost the chance to try to
| use this patent bill to do it.  Ramanraj thinks these patents are
| invalid and that the law is being misapplied.  Is there a way to
| convince the patent office of that?  Should we go to court and see?
| Or should we hope that doubts about validity restrain the patent
| holders from using their patents against Indian software developers
| and users?
`----

One way I know is by deliberately writing free software code to
violate these patents - "civil disobedience". If there are legal
implications, I will naturally end up in the court. This will help us
gather enough attention and support to launch  a nation wide protest
against software patents. I won't give up till these patents are
invalidated. I will try this approach as a last resort.

-- 
Anand Babu 
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