[IPI is a conservative group in Lewisville, Texas. To give you an idea of where IPI is coming from, it has close ties with former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (http://www.ipi.org/ipi/IPIevents.nsf/0/6f29cee6fe45948086256c6b0073cde7?OpenDocument). --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: IPI: IPI defends against the attacks of the open-sourcers Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:57 -0500 From: Tom Giovanetti <tomg@private> To: declan@private Since you're interested in intellectual property issues, we thought you might be interested in this IPI published a new paper called "Has Open Source Reached Its Limits?" questioning whether open source software really has the potential for mass market penetration, and whether open source will ever deliver innovative products, rather than the derivative products that have thus far characterized successful open source projects. Here's a link to the paper: http://www.ipi.org/ipi/IPIPublications.nsf/f726f4998ba46f86862567d80074727a/bab0bb99395eefe086256e49001e2187?OpenDocument In reaction, an open source partisan in Australia published an attack on IPI's arguments, and on IPI. Here's the link: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/05/1081017093699.html But, thanks to Google News Alerts, we found out about the attack, and demanded the right to have our reply published, which showed up today. Here's the link: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621880019.html Hope you find this of interest, and we're always interested in your comments. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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