<br>Hit the link but this is crazy, The IIPA's Section 301 filing basically states that open source is WORSE than piracy.<br><br>The reasoning is:<br><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>It encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations. As such, it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights...</i></span></span><br>
<br>Apparently Open Source does not have any intellectual property rights (copyright) attached to it, even tho GPL licensing has been repeatedly held up in court.<br><br><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0229248284.shtml">http://techdirt.com/articles/20100224/0229248284.shtml</a><br>
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