TheMysteriousFuture's Journal: from the Future:Your Rights Online: Patent Mess May Stifle A

/TD> Posted by timothy in The Mysterious Future!
from the specific-example-of-a-general-truth dept.
gtoomey writes "Australian Open Source lawyer Brendan Scott is claiming the USA/Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will damage all Australian software development. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald says that developers have probably built products which 'infringe' on U.S. software patents, while the FTA is forcing Australia to adopt DCMA laws."

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