P. Balasingham Nov 04 Washington

"Prime Minister's visit is to continue this process at the highest
level, Moragoda said. He said the signing the Biotechnology project is
of great significance." "It is connected with genetics and agriculture.
We have to catch up with development in these fields."

"The signing of the memorandum of understanding with Microsoft can
attract big brand names of the USA. The idea is to bring these brands
here. Big companies which did not come earlier to Sri Lanka will now
enter the field. Company oracle will set up their office soon. "We want
a microsoft man to be permanently stationed here," he said."

"The passing of the Intellectual Property Rights is a positive step in
this direction, the Minister said."

http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/11/04/pol01.html

What is this Intellectual Property Rights thing ?
Is Microsoft getting one signed in every Country ?

Daeron wrote:

> P. Balasingham Nov 04 Washington
> 
> "Prime Minister's visit is to continue this process at the highest
> level, Moragoda said. He said the signing the Biotechnology project is
> of great significance." "It is connected with genetics and agriculture.
> We have to catch up with development in these fields."
> 
> "The signing of the memorandum of understanding with Microsoft can
> attract big brand names of the USA. The idea is to bring these brands
> here. Big companies which did not come earlier to Sri Lanka will now
> enter the field. Company oracle will set up their office soon. "We want
> a microsoft man to be permanently stationed here," he said."
> 
> "The passing of the Intellectual Property Rights is a positive step in
> this direction, the Minister said."
> 
> http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/11/04/pol01.html
> 
> What is this Intellectual Property Rights thing ?
> Is Microsoft getting one signed in every Country ?

pass those "Software Patent" and "Life + 70 years" laws or we'll go
somewhere else to give our jobs to that will pass them???

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At earth time Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:45:51 +0000, the following transmission
was received from the entity known as paul cooke:

> Daeron wrote:
> 
>> P. Balasingham Nov 04 Washington
>> 
>> "Prime Minister's visit is to continue this process at the highest
>> level, Moragoda said. He said the signing the Biotechnology project is
>> of great significance." "It is connected with genetics and agriculture.
>> We have to catch up with development in these fields."
>> 
>> "The signing of the memorandum of understanding with Microsoft can
>> attract big brand names of the USA. The idea is to bring these brands
>> here. Big companies which did not come earlier to Sri Lanka will now
>> enter the field. Company oracle will set up their office soon. "We want
>> a microsoft man to be permanently stationed here," he said."
>> 
>> "The passing of the Intellectual Property Rights is a positive step in
>> this direction, the Minister said."
>> 
>> http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/11/04/pol01.html
>> 
>> What is this Intellectual Property Rights thing ?
>> Is Microsoft getting one signed in every Country ?
> 
> pass those "Software Patent" and "Life + 70 years" laws or we'll go
> somewhere else to give our jobs to that will pass them???

Maybe it's more like:

'We've managed to persuade our government to pass some laws that tie
computer programmers up in a load of legal knots, primarily so that a few
large companies can maintain their dominant position in the industry, and
we know that if we can't sucker or bully the rest of the world into doing
the same, we're going to face some serious competition from countries
whose programmers aren't having to constantly look over their shoulder to
see if the project they are working on violates some trivial patent'

andy.

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