Controversy
IIPA is asking the US government to consider the actions of countries mandating or suggesting open source as a harmful act roughly equivalent to not combating piracy. IIPA is urging the United States government to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India to be put on the Special 301 watchlist because of their use of open source software.
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