{"id":195,"date":"2005-05-09T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmarkars.net\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-03-29T04:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T04:40:38","slug":"intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">What does intellectual property really mean in the context of software? I am thinking about the definition &#8211; is it a function of created artifacts and people working with those artifacts? How important is the time factor? Or it does not matter? I know these are not easy to answer however, I would love to hear from people about this. As per my observation, a lot of effort and money is spent on protecting IP, is it worth the effort?<\/p>\n<p>On the lighter side, here is a Santa Joke &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Santa Singh is trying to paint his dad&#8217;s name on a 1000W bulb. His Dad asks him &#8220;Why are you doing that&#8221;. Santa Says &#8221; PitaJi Mein aapka Naam Roshan Kar raha huin&#8221;.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does intellectual property really mean in the context of software? I am thinking about the definition &#8211; is it a function of created artifacts and people working with those artifacts? How important is the time factor? Or it does not matter? I know these are not easy to answer however, I would love to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmarkars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}