That was meant to tie back to something in the second point
That my arguments for government being involved in open source apply regardless of license. (In fact they can and do apply to proprietary software as well as open source.)
Incidentally according to [link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:8104:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb|http://www.crynwr.co...hbfjnaoiadbbgiidb] Congress has been so swamped by reporter's calls on this issue that many congresscritters involved are backing away from the letter and giving it a big, Oops!
Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]