sekedar sharing... bagi yg concern masalah software dan lisensi di
milis... kalau tidak concern didelete saja... salam, rr - apkomindo
simbol dari postingan di web (redhat) mengenai apa yang dilakukan oleh
IIPA, USTR Special 301, BSA dan anggotanya memang mengerikan... symbol
tengkorak...
memang pasar Indonesia sangat besar dan lucrative... tidak boleh
diliwatkan oleh radar usaha penetrasi pasar software terutama
pemerintahan dan educations... apalagi bagi software software commercial.
Apalagi bangsa Indonesia ini sifatnya nerimoan... acceptabilitynya
tinggi... terhadap polling polling dan usaha penetrasi pasar dari produk
global... maklum liberal dan capitalist serta konsumerisme nya tinggi...
bagaimana menurut anda ?... dibawah ini menurut beberapa pakar di AS
yang mendukung open source di AS.
salam, rr - apw/ mastel
Indonesia: the IIPA is "Watching" you.
Posted 26 Feb 2010 by Melanie Chernoff
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If you use open source, you have no respect for intellectual property.
Or at least, that's what the International Intellectual Property
Alliance <http://www.iipa.com/> seems to think. According to this
article
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property>,
the lobbying group is asking the US Trade Representative to put
Indonesia on its "Special 301 Priority Watch List," in part because of
its policy encouraging the adoption of open source software by
government agencies. The Watch List is essentially a blacklist of
countries that the US believes do not adequately protect copyright or
other intellectual property rights. The US then puts pressure (or
bullies, depending on your point of view) the countries on the list to
adopt more stringent IP enforcement practices.
In regards to Indonesia's open source procurement policy, the IIPA states:
/Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from
the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the
development model, 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* and also
limits the ability of government or public-sector customers (e.g.,
State-owned enterprise) to choose the best solutions to meet the needs
of their organizations and the Indonesian people. /[note: emphasis mine]
I can understand the IIPA's concerns about market competitiveness when a
government states a technology procurement preference. But I take issue
[BIG ISSUE!] with the notion that open source software isn't an
intellectual creation, or that using or preferring OSS means that one
does not respect intellectual property rights.
This is just one of many attacks
<http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/1257224/Novelist-Blames-Piracy-On-Open-Source-Culture>
that try to equate open source software with software piracy and an
overall lack of respect for copyright law. And it's rhetoric that we, as
open source advocates, need to quash. Sometimes we even have to educate
our own people. The chairwoman of the Indonesian Association of Open
Source (AOSI), said in an interview
<http://thejakartaglobe.com/national/indonesias-answer-to-global-digital-divide-shift-to-open-source-software/331845>
a few months ago "[P]eople have two options: either to pay for licensed
software or go open source." I'm hoping she was misquoted.
Open source /is/ licensed software. It /is/ intellectual property. The
difference is merely how the author chooses to exercise his intellectual
property rights, generally allowing users the freedom to redistribute,
copy, and/or modify the code under a specific license. Piracy violates
the copyright and terms of that license, just as it does when talking
about proprietary software.
A government (or any consumer, for that matter) that chooses to use
OSS should not be accused of failing to respect or value intellectual
creations or property. Equating them with software pirates is a low
blow. Arrrrrgh.
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