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Archive for April, 2005

Back from Delhi

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Just back from a 10 day trip to Delhi!
These 10 days are definitely unforgettable for many reasons other than just visiting places in and around Delhi. For people interested, the photos are available at http://www.medhas.org/gallery/

Software Patents in India

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Happened to read an article (political?) about an amendment to the patent law in India. Here is what the article had to say about the amendment.
The Indian Patent Act, as modified in 2002 had made non patentable the following:
“a mathematical method or a business method or a computer prgramme per se or algorithms”.The recent amendment […]

Software Patents???

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Was reading a few articles about software patents. I am pretty sure that more people than not are NOT AWARE of what could be the implications of software patents becoming legal. So here it is, an image from typo3.org which more or less summarises it.

Imagine paying royalty to someone just for using a progress bar […]

Eenadu 2 UTF

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

Eenadu is one of the most read news papers in Telugu. The online edition of the paper is at http://www.eenadu.net/. Don’t worry if you cannot read it, the site currently uses a strangeencoding, which can probably only be displayed using the "eenadu" font which is downloadable from the site. There is a huge […]