[Gllug] Register article: "Open source UK" gets trade body

[Richard Jones]

Now this is something I've been saying for a while that we all need:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/23/open_source_trade_association/

Doctors, for example, don't need to worry constantly about government
bringing in stupid laws to make their work illegal, because they have
a powerful and well-funded trade body (the GMC) to defend their
interests.  The same goes for all sorts of groups, but not free
software programmers, who individually are powerless to defend against
software patents / overzealous copyright laws / manoeuverings from
large monopolies / etc.  which literally threaten to put us out of
work.

Rich.

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