Tag Archives: advocacy

Who is gonna build India

Bharath came down to my place on sunday, and the discussion started with traffic cops in Bangalore planning to use simputers to record traffic offences, and quickly moved to economy, industries, india shining, india inc., colonial india and what not. At the end of it I guess there was a point we agreed on. This

Software patents – if software can be patented, anything can be patented

The controversy over software patents have been going on for a long time. I was going through some of the patents granted under this category, and I couldnt help laughing at the absurdity of the patents, the ideas that were patented. The whole thing is ridiculous. Patents are typically awarded to inventions and new ideas.

Free Software Foundation and Microsoft

The mailing list in the office was flooded yesterday with the news of parts of MS Windows source code having been leaked onto the internet. The Open Source forum must be celeberating :) Its always been an age old battle between FSF and microsoft. We have fanatic FSF supporters, and you have a powerful corporate