| CNNMoney.com: Do You Own Your Native Language? |
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Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take Microsoft to court in a legal battle that raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the language they speak. Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take Microsoft to court in a legal battle that raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the language they speak. [Ed: Microsoft is getting a raw deal on this one. Although we at Translate.org.za believe in community participation and ownership of localised software, we too could also be accused of not asking permission. If we were to ask, who exactly would we ask?We are interested in seeing the results of the case. Microsoft is taking indigenous knowledge, the language, adapting it to their software and then selling their technology back to the people who created the language. Is this the same as African medicinal knowledge being repackaged and sold back to the creators of that knowledge at no expense?] |
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