[Linux-aus] FTA - Recent Article -

[Craig Warner]

Ryan Verner wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:22:43AM +1100, Craig Warner wrote:
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>>On the 26th November 12.00am on The Sydney Morning Herald website there 
>>was a article in the Technology section called 'Patently Yours" by Sam 
>>Varghese.
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>>(The arcticle has since been removed and there is no record when I did a 
>>search on the www.smh.com.au, on the 27th November nor did the article 
>>appear in the newspaper on the 26th November.)
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>The fact that all these FTA articles keep dissapearing really, really
>worries me.  What's going on here?
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>R
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>>The article was about the FTA and a recently published book called "How 
>>to Kill a Country" by  Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews.
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>>The book has been described as,  the first authoritative account of the 
>>fashioning of the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the USA 
>>reveals how the Australian government has deliberately and 
>>surreptitiously sacrificed Australia's interests in the deluded pursuit 
>>of a 'special relationship' with the superpower.
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>>Bit about the authors:
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>>Linda Weiss
>>/BA(Hons) Griff. PhD Lond./ 
>>Professor
>>Faculty of Economics and Business
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>>http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/content.php?pageid=2395
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>>http://www.australianinterest.com/
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>>John Mathews
>>Professor of Strategic Management
>>Macquarie Graduate School of Management
>>Sydney Australia
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>>http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/Navajo/Display.cfm?objectId=AAD05150-85DD-4C12-A87B2EEC931795AD
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>>http://www.gsm.mq.edu.au/facultyhome/john.mathews/#publications
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>>Elizabeth Thurdon
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>>(unable to  locate website at UNSW)
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>>How to Kill a Country Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews
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>>http://www.allen-unwin.com.au/rights/product.asp?ISBN=1741145856
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>>REVIEWS
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>>'Scaremongering nonsense'
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>>The Hon Mark Vaile, MP, Minister for Trade
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Sounds a bit like  '1984' by George Orwell but ....

Little more work and here's the link, read it before it disappears

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Patently-yours/2004/11/25/1101219671693.html

 From the article

"So local firms would do well to shift towards the Open Source model, 
and utilise open source programs such as Linux both as a means of 
avoiding IPR-related disputes as they develop their own software 
products, and because these Open Source programs are more efficient than 
their privately owned and monopolistic alternatives."

I going to use  this  book and article  in next batch of letters to all 
NSW Senators and my  useless  Labour  local  member .

Not going to give up with out a  fight.

Craig