Some Good News from New Zealand - Updated

Posted by grouch on Mar 14, 2006 7:21 AM EDT
Groklaw; By by Pamela Jones
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[Ed.: New Zealand's State Services Commission responds positively to feedback from Open Source advocates regarding the commissioned document "Guide to Legal Issues in Using Open Source Software".]

As you can see, it's true that New Zealand has had a positive view of Open Source since at least 2003. How that particular law firm was chosen, wolf-in-the-hen-house, to write a report on Open Source legal issues is unknown but hilarious. Anyway, it didn't work in the end. When the revised document is finished, it will be posted, the email says, on New Zealand's E-Government website.

That is the thing about FUD. Once again we see, it only works in the dark.

Update:

I just heard from Peter Harrison, the President of New Zealand Open Source Society, who says I may share with you the letter [PDF] they sent to the SSC regarding the report. The PDF includes the report, but here is the letter, which will form the basis of discussions:

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