ZDNet Australia: NZ Government Defends DRM Policy

"New Zealand's lead state sector agency yesterday responded to criticism of its new digital rights management guidelines, saying the policy does not alter its support for open source software in government agencies.

"Cory Doctorow, of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy and a contributor to the high-profile technology weblog boingboing, wrote yesterday that the guidelines make no mention of what he calls 'the disastrous impact of DRM on open source,' despite the government's official policy of encouraging open source..."

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