Hudson: Corporate lobbying against free software

On his blog, Alex Hudson looks at a FUD-filled brochure from SirsiDynix, which is a company that sells software for libraries. In addition to saying nice things about LWN, Hudson points out some of the "highlights" in this brochure that is meant to warn libraries away from free software. The brochure first showed up at WikiLeaks. "As well as the relatively malicious falsehoods being perpetrated against those specific library projects, there are also vague allegations about open source in general – from accusations of Red Hat being 'proprietary' to the highly entertaining argument that the US Department of Defense 'restrict the use of open source software for fear that it could pose a terrorist opportunity'". (Thanks to Colin Campbell for pointing us at the WikiLeaks page).

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