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Advocates form open-source trade group (News.com)

Here's a News.com article on the newly-formed Open Source and Industry Alliance, which appears to be a sort of free software lobbying group. "[The] OSAIA also will take a broad approach to open source, tracking intellectual property laws and international treaties, fighting those that would weigh on the software. And it plans to examine the procurement codes of different organizations and governments, making sure their buying plans don't discriminate against open-source software."
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