[Fsf-friends] Re: user group assn.
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati
rakesh_ambati@yahoo.com
Tue Oct 19 15:06:53 IST 2004
--- "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil@vsnl.net> wrote:
> Ramanraj K said on Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:11:40AM
> +0530,:
>
> > >>in India join together to form an
> association. While software
> > >>cos. have NASSCOM, software user groups have
> no corresponding
> > >>association that
>
> NASSCOM is much more than a mere industry body. It
> is also a copyright
> society, recognised by the Govt. under the
> Copyright Act. It means
> that NASSCOM can enforce copyrights of its
> members, and take money
> from its victims, which of course, like experiences
> of all copyright
> societies all over the world, much less than
> expenses of copyright
> enforcement.
>
> It of course, does so many other things than conduct
> surveys.
>
> The free software community cannot, of course,
> rely on NASSCOM to
> enforce our copyrights. Hence, need for
> _assigning_ copyrights to
> bodies like FSF.
Hello Ramanraj and Pai,
As pointed out by Pai, NASSCOM has a charter to be
watchdog for legal use of software, it an assocation
that _enforceses_.An organisation that works for Free
Software should have its goal to educate not enforce.
Comments please ?
Cheers
--arky
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