Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--3aacba-=3Cb=3EA=3C/b=3E: No! No, you misunder/en

A: No! No, you misunderstood. US developers may be in trouble because of the patent system, and what effect will that have? It means that there are certain products that won't be coming from the US, and therefore they won't be sold in the US, or here. You see, if a developer is in the US and there is a US software patent, that software developer is going to get sued there, whether or not he tries to deal with anybody in India, he is going to get sued. But the fact that he is distributing the program in India is not going to cause him an additional problem, because that's under the jurisdiction of India. That's the one thing he will not get sued for. So, basically, what it means is, whatever exists can be distributed in India, safely, and the developers who are lucky enough to be in India will be safe from this kind of gang warfare, and those who are unlucky enough to be in the US will not be safe.