Say No To Software Patents
A campaign to stop the introduction of Software Patents in India.
Bengaluru Meetup
When: 10am, Saturday 16th August 2008
Where: BMS College of Engineering, Basavanagudi
Agenda: Indian Patents office has called for a meeting of stakeholders in Bengaluru on 27th August (date still to be confirmed). We should submit a written appeal to stop introducing software patents in India. We will prepare this document here.
Coordination: FSUG-Bangalore
Participants
- Anivar Aravind anivar at movingrepublic dot org 080 23435606
- Praveen A - pravi dot a at gmail dot com - nine nine eight six three four eight five six five
Background
- Draft Patent manual
- Red Hat's comments on the Manual
- [http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf Why
software patents are harmful]
Discussions
- Software Patents Meeting in Bangalore foss.in Aug 13 2008
- report on the stake holders meeting - FSUG-Bangalore Aug 8 2008
- Software Patents in India - ILUG-BOM Aug 4 2008
- Software Patents in India - ILUG-BOM July 29 2008