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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Brent, this is interesting. I forwarded it to CAVO@ and license-discuss@ here at OSI. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We have to be careful that nothing in trade agreements or other government policies makes open source more difficult. This article is based on an early WikiLeaks posting about a TISA Agreement not yet negotiated, so all it suggests is that we keep our eyes open.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>/Larry</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Brent Turner [mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 5, 2015 9:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Lawrence Rosen; Brian Fox; David Webber; Patrick Masson<br><b>Subject:</b> Thoughts ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/06324931218/tisa-agreement-might-outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.shtml" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/06324931218/tisa-agreement-mi<br>ght-outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.sh<br>tml</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>