[ossig] OPEN SOURCE DEBATE HEATS UP AT CONFERENCE

[Nan Phin <nplee@tm.net.my>]

Posted October 17, 2002 05:11 Pacific Time

WASHINGTON -- OPEN source advocate Bruce Perens, who
last month left Hewlett-Packard after announcing his
desire to become more active in promoting open source
software, took an aggressive stand Thursday against
Computing Technology Industry Association's "software
choice" campaign, saying it does not promote fairness,
as CompTIA claims, and would lock open source software
out of the government marketplace.

CompTIA has "carefully crafted a message that appears
to call for fairness while actually supporting policy
that would retain the status quo of a strong bias
toward proprietary software," Perens said during a
panel discussion at a conference here on the use of
open source software by governments. "They explicitly
call for public entities to blind themselves to the
merits of one intellectual property policy over
another and they have the nerve to call that fairness."


For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/17/021017hnperens.xml?1018fram


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