When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
Feb 24, 2010, 13:03 (0 Talkback[s])
"It's only Tuesday and already it's been an interesting week for
the world of digital rights. Not only did the British government
changed the wording around its controversial 'three strikes'
proposals, but the secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Acta, was
back in the headlines. Meanwhile, a US judge is still deliberating
over the Google book settlement.
"As if all that wasn't enough, here's another brick to add to
the teetering tower of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a
lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh.
"Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an
influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically
consider open source as the equivalent of piracy - or even
worse.
"What?"
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