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Software Patents
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Sunil Abraham
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Jan 11, 2010
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last modified
Jan 11, 2010 09:51 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") is not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office sometimes incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law.
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Publications
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Newspapers should empower citizen journalism
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Sunil Abraham
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Dec 21, 2009
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last modified
Oct 23, 2012 08:47 AM
A single content-management system can be used to publish highly-targeted and customised content. Sunil Abraham, director, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS India), believes traditional newspapers should expose their primary research databases such as photos, video and audio recordings, and documents to the public using web technologies.
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News & Media
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Financial Speculation as Urban Planning
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by
Sunil Abraham
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May 30, 2009
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Apr 05, 2011 04:36 AM
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Research
Talk by Prof Michael Goldman
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Internet Governance
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Events
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Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj
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by
Sunil Abraham
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Oct 31, 2008 09:38 AM
Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj
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Blog
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Uploads
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Dr. Andrew Lynn
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by
Sunil Abraham
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Oct 31, 2008 09:36 AM
Dr. Andrew Lynn
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Openness
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Blog
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Uploads
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Dr. Zakir Thomas
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Sunil Abraham
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Oct 31, 2008 09:33 AM
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Blog
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Uploads
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Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam
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by
Sunil Abraham
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Oct 31, 2008 09:31 AM
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Open Access Day celebrated in India
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Sunil Abraham
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Oct 21, 2008
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
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Open Access
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance co-organised joint celebrations of Open Access Day in Jamia Millia Islamia campus on the 14th of October 2008. Around 50 people attended the event from different departments in Jamia there were also some participants from the Indian Linux Users Group. CIS also published an Open Access flyer on this day featuring quotations from Sam Pitroda, MS Swaminathan, Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Frederick Noronha, Barbara Kirsop and Samir Brahmachari.
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Openness
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Blog
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A2K3 Panel XI: Open Access to Science and Research
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by
Sunil Abraham
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Sep 23, 2008
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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Open Access
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam participated in the third Access to Knowledge hosted by The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School between September 8-10, 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference held at the Geneva International Conference Centre brought together hundreds of decision-makers and experts on global knowledge to discuss the urgent need for policy reforms.
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Blog
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Essay Competition for Software Freedom Day
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Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 22, 2008
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:02 AM
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filed under:
FLOSS
The Free Software Users Group of Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration organise an essay competition for schools and colleges in Bangalore on the topic of "Software Freedom"
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