[luau] News - Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL

[Warren Togami]

Follow-up:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021024S0001
Congressman Criticized For Attacking Free Software Movement

Washington Rep. Adam Smith, whose biggest contributor is Microsoft, is
blasted by head of a House technology committee.
By Aaron Ricadela

Microsoft, the House technology committee, and a Washington state
congressman are involved in a flap over free software.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., whose biggest campaign contributor is
Microsoft, was criticized by the technology committee Wednesday for an
addendum to an official letter that criticized open-source software
distributed under the GNU General Public License. GPL software competes
with Microsoft Windows and some of the company's other products. 
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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:37, Warren Togami wrote:
> Oh sure, Washington state doesn't have any special interests opposing
> the GPL.
> 
> 
> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4
> An anonymous reader writes: "Leaders of the New Democrat Coalition
> attempt to outlaw GPL. A call to sign off on explicit rejection of
> "licenses that would prevent or discourage commercial adoption of
> promising cyber security technologies developed through federal R & D."
> has been issued by Adam Smith, Congressman for the Ninth District in the
> State of Washington.