guardian: "When using open source makes you an enemy of the state"

Kristian Rink kristian at zimmer428.net
Thu Feb 25 07:42:23 UTC 2010


Folks:

... thoroughly disgusting, shouldn't FSF(E) comment on that?

[...
As if all that wasn't enough, here's another brick to add to the 
teetering tower of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in law 
at the University of Edinburgh.

Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby 
group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as 
the equivalent of piracy - or even worse.
[...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property

And we're still talking "just" open source, not even software libre here...
K.


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