Software Made in Bolivia, Myth or Reality?

RESUMEN This article focuses on Bolivian and international legislations around copyright, intellectual property (IP), the protection these might ofer to legal software owners, and how they realate to software in general. It also addresses he necessary steps needed when developing software from scratch: the need of a successful idea, the opportunity window, the market, the business plan, the vision and engineering investment, the marketing investment, the customer support, product maintenance and the need to maintain a market edge, etc. It discusses the impact on having part of your software developed in other countries and how this fact impacts its “denomination of origin”.