Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Linux Australia urges Govornment to support free competition
>
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> | Linux Australia, Australia's peak Open Source Software community group,
> | announced the launch of a petition today calling on the Australian
> | Federal Government to resist pressure to abandon consumer and
> | competition rights when drafting anti-circumvention laws. New laws
> | are required under the terms of the Free Trade Agreement negotiated
> | between Australia and the United States.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Con Zymaris, a director with the Open Source Industry Association,
> | joined with Russell. "Australian small businesses are world-class at
> | using, deploying and building Open Source software. We must be free to
> | do so without fear of lawsuits from the larger incumbents we compete
> | against."
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>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4619/53/
A little more useful for the Australians in the audience, Linux Australia's
position:
<http://www.linux.org.au/>
And a more indepth discussion of the legal aspects, including a link to the
petition:
<http://www.linux.org.au/law/>
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Regards,
Jim
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