[Gllug] Finally some mainstream coverage of EUCD

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:18:38AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
>    Which is probably one of the reasons why there are groups of countries in
> the far-east about to go their own ways, and probably based on Open Source.

There's a very compelling economic argument for them to go this way,
particularly if the US & Europe go down the route of mandating closed
hardware.

Having open hardware and "open" software (I include Windows in this,
for now) has encouraged a huge explosion of technological innovation,
coming up from the tinkerers and small-time inventors. If the US
destroys this mass base of innovation, then any other country that
wasn't foolish enough to do the same will outcompete them.

Rich.

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