"The agreement bans government mandates for use of open source software, stating "No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory." The open source word processing application LibreOffice has been deployed by many local governments throughout the EU to save money..
.. the agreement would strip existing protections which aim to keep confidential or personally identifiable data within country borders or which prohibit its movement to other countries which do not have similar data protection laws in place.
.. seeking to end publicly provided services like public pension funds, which are referred to as 'monopolies' and to limit public regulation of all financial services ."
> The agreement aims at liberalizing the worldwide trade of services such as banking, health care and transport.
Yes these services really need liberalizing. Just look at all the damage that has been caused by the public ownership of these services. You know private elites would be better off being in control of these services.
"10 organizations representing more than 10 million Americans called on U.S. Trade Representative -- USTR -- Michael Froman to publicly release all records of communication between himself and representatives of the ten largest U.S. financial institutions -- including his former employer Citigroup -- while he has served in the USTR position."
"No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory."
Is the intent here to avoid government mandates for open source when tendering? Because it doesn't actually say that. Is parties only the government agency? Worded as it is it seems like it might trample over copyright by making the GPL unenoforcable in certain circumstances.
"Parties" in this context is "parties to the treaty". So, weirdly, a country would be able to require source from suppliers internally but not from suppliers from other countries.
It's fairly obvious that this is intended to prevent Microsoft from being excluded from bids.
"The agreement bans government mandates for use of open source software, stating "No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory." The open source word processing application LibreOffice has been deployed by many local governments throughout the EU to save money..
.. the agreement would strip existing protections which aim to keep confidential or personally identifiable data within country borders or which prohibit its movement to other countries which do not have similar data protection laws in place.
.. seeking to end publicly provided services like public pension funds, which are referred to as 'monopolies' and to limit public regulation of all financial services ."