Comments on: Encouraging open source could land you in trouble

By: Open Source – Enemy of the State? | Baud Labs

Open Source – Enemy of the State? | Baud Labs — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:30:51 +0000

[...] Johnson’s Guardian article references Andres Guadamuz’s blog post “Encouraging open source could land you in trouble,” whose analysis of the IIPA request is the following: “I am baffled by the mindset [...]

By: When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Richard Hartley

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state | Richard Hartley — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:04:54 +0000

[...] of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh.Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:48:19 +0000

forums that are across the identical subject areas? Many thanks!

By: Using Open Source Makes You An Enemy Of The State – Adam Hawkins

Using Open Source Makes You An Enemy Of The State – Adam Hawkins — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:10:33 +0000

[...] has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider [...]

By: Milford CT Real Estate

Milford CT Real Estate — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:39:59 +0000

Open source is a tricky kind of thing. Although Linux distributions like Ubuntu are great, I prefer something that “just works” like OSX.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:40:01 +0000

One day, from China, or India, will come a universal computer language – not form America! They can hardly lead the world while stuck on $Microsoft!
On day America will sink into ‘Proprietary Secret’ Hell, as the rest of the world advances, past them and into the new, exciting, 21st century! Much as Thorium fueled, safe, clean nuclear reactors have been held back by American, commercial, capitalist, corporative reasons, computer smarts have been limited to $microsoft, with no competition even! Simply not progressive capitalism, but protective, limiting capitalism – not good.

By: When using open source makes you an enemy of the state

When using open source makes you an enemy of the state — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:06:26 +0000

[...] has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider [...]

By: biuro rachunkowe wrocław

biuro rachunkowe wrocław — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:19:57 +0000

Open source in major situations is good…

By: Curt Sampson

Curt Sampson — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:10:02 +0000

You must distinguish between the goals of these organizations and the claims that they make to advance those goals.

The goal that western software companies want is not to reduce piracy per se, it’s to increase their revenue by selling more copies of their software. The battle against “piracy” is simply a method to achieve that aim. Methods such as having their customers or potential customers switch to open source are diametrically opposed to that aim.

A good book that discusses the “copyright wars” in detail is William Patry’s Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars.

By: Rudi@APW Indonesia

Rudi@APW Indonesia — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:00:21 +0000

if FOSS give solutions to country such as Indonesia and other developing country to have alternative cheap solutions for bridging digital divide..why should IIPA and USTR complain about Indonesian government attempt to have cheaper way to be in par with the rest of the world ?
FOSS (free and open software) also a solutions to reduce piracy so why should IIPA complain if it help solve the piracy problem they are fighting for ? or they fight for something else ?