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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 26 Feb 2010 11:37 : \____
> nessuno pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> <Quote>
>> The Indonesian government issued a statement in 2009 informing
>> municipal governments that they had to stop using pirated software.
>> The statement said that government agencies must either purchase
>> legally licensed commercial software or switch to free and open source
>> alternatives in order to comply with copyright law. This attempt by
>> Indonesia to promote legal software procurement processes by endorsing
>> the viability of open source software has apparently angered the IIPA.
>>
>> In its 301 recommendations for Indonesia, the IIPA demands that the
>> government rescind its 2009 statement. According to the IIPA,
>> Indonesia's policy "weakens the software industry and undermines its
>> long-term competitiveness" because open source software "encourages a
>> mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to
>> intellectual creations [and] fails to build respect for intellectual
>> property rights."
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/big-content-condemns-foreign-governments-that-endorse-foss.ars
>>
>> Yeah, I guess free software does undermine long-term
>> competitiveness...Microsoft has had a hard time competing with free,
>> as in Firefox, Google, Linux, ...
>
> The IIPA's position is profoundly hypocritical, because many parts of the
> US government, including the Department of Defense, have issued their own
> memos endorsing open source software adoption.
>
> Although the DoD may also be a bit two-faced about "open source".
"The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source code
supports software reliability and security efforts through the identification
and elimination of defects that might otherwise go unrecognized by a more
limited core development team."
--CIO David Wennergren, Department of Defense (October 2009)
"Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone
can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent,
the US Department of Defense."
--Richard Stallman
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