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An Open Letter to The United States Trade Representative
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| Recently it was reported in the Guardian,
| an on-line newspaper, that the
| International Intellectual Property
| Alliance (IIPA) is requesting that the
| United States Trade Representative put
| Indonesia, Brazil and India on the "Special
| 301 Watchlist" specifically because those
| countries advocate the use of Free and Open
| Source Software (FOSS) in their economies.
|
| I have been in the software industry for
| over forty years, as a programmer,
| businessman, educator, author and
| entrepreneur. I have worked in some of the
| largest companies, both as a supplier of
| software and a customer of software.
|
| I have traveled to two of these three
| countries, and while I have not been to
| Indonesia, I helped formulate the FOSS
| policies of Malaysia, have worked with the
| government of Brazil, and presented many
| times in India. I know their cultures and
| their way of doing business.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/An-Open-Letter-to-The-United-States-Trade-Representative
Open-Source Software: Bad, Evil and Un-American
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| That's the view of the International
| Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a
| group of trade bodies that includes such
| notables as the Business Software Alliance,
| the Motion Picture Association of America
| (MPAA) and the Recording Industry
| Association of America (RIAA). The IIPA
| recently submitted its Orwellian-sounding
| "2010 Special 301 Report on Copyright
| Protection & Enforcement," an annual review
| of intellectual property protection and
| market access practices in foreign
| countries, to the U.S. Trade
| Representative. Ten countries make the
| "priority watch list" of naughty boys this
| year (down from 13 last year), including
| Indonesia.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3868046/Open-Source-Software-Bad-Evil-and-Un-American.htm
Recent:
Time To Rebut The IIPA's FUD Against Open Source
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| A recent blog posting at The Guardian
| about the US "Special 301" rules has
| generated deep concern around the global
| open source community. It points (via a
| blog posting by Edinburgh University law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz) to this year's
| recommendations from the controversially-
| named International Intellectual Property
| Alliance, which describes itself as "a
| private sector coalition... of trade
| associations representing U.S. copyright-
| based industries" - namely
|
| "the Association of American
| Publishers (AAP), the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA), the
| Entertainment Software Association
| (ESA), the Independent Film &
| Television Alliance (IFTA), the Motion
| Picture Association of America (MPAA),
| the National Music Publishers'
| Association (NMPA) and the Recording
| Industry Association of America
| (RIAA)".
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http://opensource.org/node/510
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