Groklaw: Some Good News from New Zealand - Updated | Linux Today

Groklaw: Some Good News from New Zealand – Updated

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 2006

“Remember the Guide to Legal Issues in Using Open Source
Software, commissed by New Zealand’s State Services Commission,
which we researched and discovered was written by a law firm with a
connection to Microsoft? I called it New Zealand’s ‘Get the Facts’
style report.

“I just heard from Peter Morgan, who tells me he wrote to the
SSC, and he’s gotten a very nice email back with some good news. It
seems quite a few people wrote to them, actually, pointing out
various inaccuracies, and they are planning to revise the document
as a result…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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