On Thursday 04 March 2010 05:20 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Need to fight this ridiculous crap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property
Going deeper, found the IIPA (BSA included) table of contents of
"recommendations"
for each country:
http://www.iipa.com/2010_SPEC301_TOC.htm
Some excerpts:
India
http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2010/2010SPEC301INDIA.pdf
"The industry is also concerned about moves by the government to
consider mandating
the use of open source software and software of only domestic origin.
Though
such policies have not yet been implemented, IIPA and BSA urge that
this area
be carefully monitored."
Brasil
http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2010/2010SPEC301BRAZIL.pdf
"Avoid legislation on the mandatory use of open source software by
government
agencies and government controlled companies."
Indonesia
http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2010/2010SPEC301INDONESIA.pdf
"Rescind March 2009 MenPAN circular letter endorsing the use and
adoption of
open source software which threatens to create additional trade
barriers and
deny fair and equitable market access to software companies."
"We strongly urge USTR to consider the implications that Indonesia’s open
source preference policy has on IP protection and access to
Indonesia’s market
for U.S. goods and services."
Thailand
"Among other market access restrictions to be addressed, reverse
proposed policy
mandating use of open source software, and, e.g., requiring bundling
of government
funded computers and computers for schools with open source software;
maintain
neutral policies with respect to technology choice."
IIPA is shamelessly pushing USA government to use its influence to
avoid laws
supporting and promoting open source.
This is all they can try to do.
What we must do is not to keep talking on the mailing list but to go
public by all means.
May be doing some shows on media, or sending letter backed by detailed
research and justification (rather just firmly re-iterating what we have
already said) to the governments etc.
What we can also do is to keep continuing to develop more and more high
quality free software and target those companies which are already
consumers of FOSS.
Give them such state-of-the-art software that they get adicted to it and
put counter pressure against such attempts.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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