Re: [ossig] Subject: Interesting document from ITworld.com

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On 18 Jan 2003 at 22:08, lks wrote:

> Quote: "A draft of the declaration had called for open source to be
> "supported" but was changed after objections from the U.S. government
> delegation late Tuesday night."
> 
> So now what? US gonna bomb those who are not with them?

I suppose it is inevitable that USA govt will try to discourage OSS 
adoption as much as possible since most of the popular software in 
use currently are very much USA-centric and their software industry 
will suffer given the prevalent current business model of making 
money by selling generic software.  If OSS really catches on here 
esepcially in govt usage, I am sure they will also try to put some 
pressure on the Malaysian govt. (if they have not done so already).



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