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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. It's all about money, not choice. by Space+Coyote · · Score: 1, Troll

    In business as in democracy in these times, money will buy you a louder voice. Bills like these simply give a voice to the notion that you can use some of this software for free, and a lot of it is actually pretty good. IBM won't help here, because they simply want to use Linux as a way to charge you an arm and a leg for all of their other services. The language of choice is being twisted to limit the real choices of consumers and governments.

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  2. Re:The GPL: Intellectual Property or Intellectual by Disevidence · · Score: 0, Troll

    Excellent Fp for the Clit!

    I agree with this post.

    Yes, the Clit still lives on....

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