India rejects software patents

By at 11:52 pm Wednesday, Apr 20

India is fast turning into one of the world's development powerhouses, and they're getting there by challenging the idea that they should have western-style copyright and patent rules (the US spent its first century as a "pirate nation" that didn't honor foreign copyrights and patents). This marks a decisive moment in Indian history: the US, Europe, and other nations' IT industries are crippled by the need to pay monopoly rents to patent-crooks like Acacia; India's IT companies can get away scott-free. Link

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