Friday, 24. November 2006
Topic: COMPUTER - on November 24, 2006 at 2:03:00 PM CET
Chilean Indians take on Microsoft
MAPUCHE Indians in Chile are trying to take the global software giant Microsoft to court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether anyone can ever "own" the language they speak.
The row was sparked by Microsoft's decision last month to launch its Windows software package in Mapuzugun, a Mapuche tongue spoken by around 400,000 indigenous Chileans.
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