Australian political person is worried that enforcing government agencies can excessively consume the industry using open source software and lead to disasters.
Australian United Government has excluded federal government agencies to enforce open source software, indicating that this method may excessively use the industry's resources, resulting in the risk of failure of important plans to "unacceptable extent."
When Christopher Pearce, the Liberal People's Council, who participated in the Auug (Australian UNIX and Open System User Group) Assembly, represents the federal information, Telecom and Technical Minister Helen Coonan, made as above.
Pearing in the speech released by Australia ZDNET, the Howard government's policy "is very simple" policy of using open source code for the public authorities. He said: "The agency can be based on their respective needs, and consider all the ownership costs of all service life, not only the cost-effectiveness of commercial solutions such as initial, using any available software."
Pearce said that the government has an open source and proprietary software, there is no consciousness or philosophical difference, the government's position, the most appropriate statement, is "neutral". He said: "The government enforces the open source software too much." "If it is quickly adopted, the government's size is large to demand to exceed the supply." "If there is a considerable number of large-scale buildings, industrial resources may be difficult to deal with." "Pearce said:" This will not accept the risk of increasing the failure of large-scale important plans, causing the consequences of government and industry dual loss. "
Pearce also criticized an IT transaction spokesperson of Australian Labor Party (ALP), Senator Kate Lundy intents to hook in intellectual property rights with the bilateral free trade agreement of the US Australia. He said: "(Free Trade Agreement) will not affect the use of open source software." "Open source code authorization is a mode of copyright, and has the ability to have such authorization will not be affected by (free trade agreement) "
Pearce also tried to calibrate the developer's doubts about the terms of science and technology protection measures in the agreement. He said: "I can promise you again, the intellectual property chapter allows the implementation of the relevant measures of science and technology to protect the implementation of partial flexibility." "The agreement also has two-year buffer period for these terms, open source software developers It can take advantage of this opportunity to make their concerns. "Pearce said:" The Chapter of Intellectual Property will not change Australian competition law, which can also be used to solve potential anti-competitive behavior. "
Pearce said he learned that the free trade agreement will not affect the current attitudes and policies of Australia for computer software patent applications. He emphasized that software can also apply for patents as long as "new", "innovations", "manufacturing" and "practical". He said: "ALP and Democrats and Australian software manufacturers are harmful to the Australian Free Trade Agreement, are all scary."
He also said that the government has already prepared a series of tools to help each member of the open source software program and the proprietary software program, including the case study of government agencies to establish an open source software program, open source software guide, And a "practice community". (ZDNet China / Chen Zhiwen)
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