<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Roland, as at the end of the first para, "The inherent danger of the proposal would be to shut out open source developers and competition, destroy interoperability and lock in legacy business models."</div>
<div> </div><div>-C</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com" target="_blank">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <CAEP5zKTkAPoB5xUNQ=<a href="mailto:U1X03pt2c9UyWPFQqCOYfZ69xOHFVc9A@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">U1X03pt2c9<u></u>UyWPFQqCOYfZ69xOHFVc9A@mail.<u></u>gmail.com</a>>, at 08:48:16 on Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <<a href="mailto:chaitanyabd@gmail.com" target="_blank">chaitanyabd@gmail.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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Much of the developing world relies on open source developers to enable OR CREATE mechanisms that allow for an open environment of sharing resources related to agricultural practices, education, health and diverse content. In such regions, access to information is a challenge and with serious resource constraints, but it is an open and free internet (and the resultant ease of collaboration/sharing information) that empowers communities<br>
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Why would DRM on a Disney Movie download stifle the ability for the Open Source movement to continue to develop and distribute its work freely?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Roland Perry<br>
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