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Can Open Source Survive Congress?

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Joab Jackson
Sep 11, 2008

“Not everyone has been pleased with how the bill calls out
open-source software by name, though. Analysts at the Business
Software Alliance met with members of the committee to voice their
concern that the bill unfavorably offers open-source software
products an unfair competitive advantage over other commercial
software, according to a BSA spokesperson who declined to be
named.”

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