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Story: Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'

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Mr Di Maio seems confused.

He says that the "battle between open-source and proprietary software should be fought in the application arena". He then seems to go on a dismiss the attempts of the Australian Democrats to introduce competition back into the application space.

You can't have your cake and eat it to.

The Democrats - and I'm not a Democrat, but I support this bill - are trying to restore some competition in the application space, instead of further ceding control to proprietary application developers like Microsoft. That Microsoft is seens as that target may just reflect the fact that Microsoft is the main offender, and that shedding a reliance on Microsoft alone might result in dramatic savings for government and business.

In short, the Democrat's bill is all about the applications.

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