Sydney Morning Herald: US Threat to Free Software

"Another election under our collective belts, and like old soldiers, the issues that dominated the past few weeks of our lives--interest rates, Tasmanian forests, interest rates and education--fade away.

"Fading perhaps faster than all others is the Australia-US free trade agreement: most notably the infamous 'Chapter 17' covering the harmonisation of intellectual property (IP) laws between the two countries..."

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