Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill

Red Wolf writes "The Age reports that South Australia has caused eyebrows at the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) to be raised in concern, with the organisation writing to Premier Mike Rann over a proposed Open Source software bill. The ISC, by its own definition, is a "global coalition of large and small companies committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by government preference or mandate"."

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Their position makes perfect sense really.

[Anonymous Coward]

Corporate entities have an entitlement to tax dollars. It's plain common sense. By virtue of the theory of the vague reference to free markets it's plainly obvious that this makes sense and should be codified into law.
The problem is when individuals try to claim these entitlements. If we spend tax dollars on the poor, how are we going to have a competitive corporate sector? The logic is so simple, and yet we still have these attempts to force tax dollars to be spent on Open Source software.

Slashdot link that shows indeed it does

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a link that shows that if he had read slashdot, he would know that the Linux kernel supports the Tolkien Ring.

Hello? It's for you.

[Michael's a Jerk!]

1980 Called, and they want their Troll Back!

You forgot to mention

[commodoresloat]

how many hours it took to copy an 18M file from one linux box to another.

What they really meant to say:

[cordsie]

Original Title:

Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill

After Slashdot discussion:

Open Source Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Bill

Cybersquatting

[stud9920]

Someone must be cybersquatting slashdot.org . How else could you explain "lobbyists" was not written as superlative "lobbiest" ?