[ILUG-BOM] Software Patents in India

[Venkatesh Hariharan]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:28 AM, jtd <jtd at mtnl.net.in> wrote:

> In short "specific hardware" is extremely generic until the software
> gets in whence it morphs into  "special adoption or modification of
> its hardware or organization ".
>
> In the above i have restricted myself to silicon. But the same could
> apply to full machines - robots -. What a robot does is totally
> dependent on the software. You could make it do flips or eye surgery.
>
> What you should aim at is complete ban on patents for any software /
> process / method irrespective of it being tied to specific hardware,
> including the results of code being morphed into machine readable
> binaries, either for execution on, or modification of internal
> elements in FPGA / ASIC / General or special purpose machines,
> irrespective of it's method of storage or accessseaability


jtd, I have to agree with you. Given how easy it is to produce "specific
hardware" nowadays, this can be a dangerous loophole.

Venky