“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they use open source software.”1
By Bobbie Johnson, “When using open source makes you an enemy of the state“, guardian.co.uk, Feb 23rd, 2010.
Canada is already “special”. We, Canadians, welcome these innovative countries!2
- The information above was dug up by Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh. [↩]
- Hat tip for the link: Zé Fontainhas. [↩]
