While governments around the world adopt open source, U.S. business groups say we should fear it.
By Amy Vernon at Network World
Try to wrap your brain around this: thanks to Obama's adoption of open source to run the White House website, the U.S. should be on the U.S. Trade Representative's "Special 301 watchlist," according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance. The watchlist calls out nations that don't honor intellectual property protections.
OK, that's not technically true — the United States was nowhere to be seen on the IIPA's watchlist for 2010 — but given the organization's stance on open source, the fact that the Obama Administration announced last year that the WhiteHouse.gov website would be revamped on an open source platform (Drupal) means that it's against the free market and is evil. Or, at least, very very bad
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