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BSA plays the IP card against the European Commission

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C-Net News; By Matt Asay
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Leave it to the Business Software Alliance (BSA) to distort the definition of"open standard" in order to serve the interests of Microsoft and its other members. The BSA doesn't like the European Commission's increasing interest in open source and open standards to deliver software interoperability.

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So to them: Open Standard = File format "standard" that only purchasers of BSA members' programs (i.e. MS Office) can "open"

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