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by marcosdumay 3883 days ago
Maybe not everything in it is bad, but this part is very bad.

It means other countries can not have the software they buy inspected for NSA (or whoever else) planted backdoors.

It also means that countries can not ask for source code in a guarantee that the software will remain useful if the company goes away.

What it does not mean is that those countries will stop pirating software. There's no mechanism for enforcing that.
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maxerickson 3883 days ago
They can still do both of those things, they just can't stop the import of software that has not been inspected or had the source shared.

So a government can still choose to use open source software, and have whoever do whatever consulting on that software, they just can't refuse to allow a proprietary vendor to offer their product for sale.

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