Follow-up: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021024S0001 Congressman Criticized For Attacking Free Software Movement
Washington Rep. Adam Smith, whose biggest contributor is Microsoft, is blasted by head of a House technology committee. By Aaron Ricadela Microsoft, the House technology committee, and a Washington state congressman are involved in a flap over free software. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., whose biggest campaign contributor is Microsoft, was criticized by the technology committee Wednesday for an addendum to an official letter that criticized open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License. GPL software competes with Microsoft Windows and some of the company's other products. (continued in article) On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:37, Warren Togami wrote: > Oh sure, Washington state doesn't have any special interests opposing > the GPL. > > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 > An anonymous reader writes: "Leaders of the New Democrat Coalition > attempt to outlaw GPL. A call to sign off on explicit rejection of > "licenses that would prevent or discourage commercial adoption of > promising cyber security technologies developed through federal R & D." > has been issued by Adam Smith, Congressman for the Ninth District in the > State of Washington.
