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ZDNet Australia: OSIA Questions Coalition’s Stand on Patent Law

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 7, 2004

“Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) has expressed its
disappointment over the coalition’s refusal to accept that patent
law or the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States could
be improved.

“On 27 August, OSIA sent a survey to a number of representatives
of parties in the Australian Parliament to ‘establish the
understanding of each of the parties with issues relating to open
source and their overall support for open source…'”


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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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