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



From the language of it all, I suspect there will also be some "discouraging" on open standard strong cryptography. This has always been a torn on the part of the US and UK govt. Read the part on "ICT and stability" I suppose they will argue availability of GPG will let Al Qeada to use them. Blah blah blah. Before long, DMCA creep up and impose on others. Someday, your multi-region DVD player at home will become illegal.

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 10:43 AM, nsh@pop.jaring.my wrote:

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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