Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--a23064-Preventing India from having s/en

Preventing India from having software patents will be up to you &mdash; to the citizens of India. I am a foreigner, I have no influence except when I can convince other people through the logic of what I say. There is a chance that you can do this. When the US started to have software patents, the public policy question was not considered at all. Nobody even asked whether it was a good idea to have software patents. The Supreme Court made a decision which was then twisted around by an appeals court, and ever since then, there were software patents.