> The greatest threat to FLOSS is not an absence of software, but government > regulation which contradicts the underlying policy goals of FLOSS. > > GOSS is different than other OSS not so much in that there is government > specific policies within copyright/patent and other laws granting exclusive > rights, or even the extremely risk averse nature of bureaucrats, but that the > government is the creator/modifier//distributor of those laws.
From my perspective having been on the Gov’t side of software development for decades now, I feel compelled to say I disagree with these points. I believe most U.S. federal Gov’t developers that have any Open Source proclivity or experience would disagree. As I also feel this tangent is increasingly off-topic with the subject thread so I will leave it at that, save elaborations for another thread another time, and thank you for the discourse. Sean _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
