March 9, 2016
12:09 p.m.
India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software - a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more.. http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/the-new-guidelines-for-computer-related-inven tions-are-a-big-win-for-foss-in-india