Draft of FOSS bill

THE office of Rep. Teddy Casiño sent me a copy of the draft Free/Open Source Software Bill. The bill’s long title: “An act defining the procurement of software and software licenses in government agencies, promoting the development, and use of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), declaring illegal the patenting of known FOSS and standards or any of their derivatives thereby amending section 22 of RA 8293 otherwise known as the intellectual property code of the Philippines, and for other purposes.” Phew! The bill will be filed on Sept. 12, so if anyone has comments or suggestions, you can post them here and I’ll pass them along. You can read the document here.