<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 3:44 PM Tzeng, Nigel H. <<a href="mailto:Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu">Nigel.Tzeng@jhuapl.edu</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div>
<div>3. My agenda is mostly limited to wishing that we have more GOSS. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is interesting that the policy split within license-discuss is similar to the split within <a href="http://goslingcommunity.org">goslingcommunity.org</a><br><br></div><div>There are those who are focused on the government use/creation/modification/distribution of software, and there are those who are focused on how government regulates software. We have not, however, become divided as much as the OSI discussions have become -- it is more about one group not always remembering about the other, never opposing.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>The greatest threat to FLOSS is not an absence of software, but government regulation which contradicts the underlying policy goals of FLOSS.<br></div><div><br></div><div>GOSS is different than other OSS not so much in that there is government specific policies within copyright/patent and other laws granting exclusive rights, or even the extremely risk averse nature of bureaucrats, but that the government is the creator/modifier//distributor of those laws.</div><div><br></div><div>Obviously "the government" isn't a single entity within each jurisdiction, but different departments can and should communicate policy goals with each other. Government agencies are then used by the politicians as resources when bills (diffs on existing laws) are proposed (Pull Request).</div><div> </div><div>(BTW: At the GOSLING gaggle on Friday we had <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jon "maddog" Hall visiting, and MP David Graham </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Burgh_Graham">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Burgh_Graham</a> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">gave us all a tour of the new Canadian House of Common building. I have some cool pictures of Jon on the new speakers chair).</span></div><div> </div></div></div>