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Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill

Posted by timothy on from the commonwealth-means-what-again dept.

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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  1. Suggestion by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Either a) Get new lawyers. b) Stop trolling.

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  2. Re:The GPL: Intellectual Property or Intellectual by Penguuu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
    its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.

    Where did you hire your lawyers? :)

    You just have to release source, if you use existing
    source and modify it, but if you just use GNU-tools, you don't have to release the source.

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  3. Re:The GPL: Intellectual Property or Intellectual by pe1rxq · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please don't feed the trolls.....

    It has the same old nonsense:
    -We have to do all the work for the rest of the world to leach
    -Compiling with GCC makes program GPLed
    -GPL is keeping linux back

    Jeroen

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