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What? It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group of organizations like the MPAA and the RIAA has asked the United States representative to look to countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India, its "special watch list of 301" because the use of open source software.

I know that open source tends to be associated with the socialist ideal, but I think this is an example of free market in action. When companies can not compete with larger competitors crushing, form and find another way to reduce costs and competition. Most free software is not owned by the state: only price elasticity to its logical conclusion and the free use as a stick to beat their competitors (who accused Google, which gives its main product for free to be anti – capitalist?).

Example: last year, the Indonesian government has sent a circular around all the departments and state-owned companies, pushing them towards open source. This, according to the IIPA, agencies can use "FOSS (Free Open Source Software), with a view to implementation in late 2011, the circular that involve the use of legitimate software open source and free software to reduce the total cost of software .

We forget that the statement ignores the fact that there are many companies that are based on the model of OSS (RedHat, Wordpress, Canonical to start). But beyond that, it seems incredible that anyone would recommend simply means that open source products – products that can be easily adjusted without violating the license – "Mine" means nothing.

Open source is a more DIY. Image tools and working on the web is at times controversial, but most are completely free, sponsored by the remote user. Although the programs are used in large applications, that not everyone could code However, there are others to contribute to open source if he / she wants. Personal use of the above. The field of industrial applications, the licensing of large firms will be different, perhaps for the procedure, time constraints, including corporate image, credibility, there are several reasons for the associated companies of different software.

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