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Open standards policy in India: A long, but successful journey

Last week, India became another major country to join the growing, global open standards movement...
Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat) 19 Nov 2010 3 comments
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East meets West: the U.S.-India open government dialogue

Yesterday , U.S. President Barack Obama addressed members of the Indian parliament and announced a...
Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat) 09 Nov 2010
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New Zealand rejects software patents

Recently the NZ govt announced that it was to remove software from the list of items that can be...
Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat) 26 Jul 2010 17 comments
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Open Source: Modernizing India's education system

Over the last few years, open source adoption has been growing within India's education system...
Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat) 19 Apr 2010 8 comments
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Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.

As a child growing up in India, one of the first things I learned is a hymn to Saraswati, the...
Venkatesh Hariharan (Venky) (Red Hat) 16 Dec 2009 114 comments

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Commented on 29 Jan 2010
Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.
Madhukar, for me, one important takeaway from your post is that while ideals are important, the practice of these ideals in day-to-day life is also equally important. The manner in which the ideals of sharing knowledge were...
Commented on 29 Jan 2010
Is IP another bubble about to burst? A view from another civilization.
Perhaps this will help explain the reason for our disagreements. My specific concern is more with software patents because it converts methods that could have been freely practiced by software developers into private...
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