Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--9df87f-It's important to understand t/en

It's important to understand that each country has its own patent system and its own patent laws and what you do in a certain country is under the jurisdiction of that country's patent law. So the result is, that if the US has software patents, the US becomes a sort of battleground where anybody using computers might get sued. If India avoids software patents, then India is not a battleground, and computer users in India do not face this danger of getting sued.