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Why is so much of the innovation in the Open Source field taking place outside the USA?

Why is it that it is European governments that are considering moving to Open Source, and not USA governments?

Why is it that it is big companies in the UK that are grouping together to fight Microsoft's restrictive licensing, and not the USA?

Is the USA in danger of losing its lead in the technology sector?

Here some information about Sphinx as translated by google and here the original in german.

It seems to be a project to assure interoperability of different commercial products (and now obviously one GPL project) inencryption and to assist in developing a public key infrastructure (pki).
This all happens on international standards like S/MIME, X.509v3, PKIX.

So its not a (binary) program, but a system concept.

While writing this, there seems to be a different source
on english, which does not rely on my or google translation abilities and also has some pictures :).

Translation of the 1998 report might come soon.

Makes it even simpler for CoS to read about how they are monitored. So much for the unlimited power of the ``constitutional police'' (Boy, the US school system must be really broken, still using your gov's propaganda material from WWII?)