Washington DC -- The open source community is under attack.

Faced with a growing array of open source competitors, a handful of dominant software companies are moving to turn governments around the world against open source.

This political activity escapes the notice of most people, even technologists. Thus, OSAIA's Open Source Policy Tracker. The Tracker traces changes in executive, legislative and judicial bodies the world over.

See OSAIA's Policy Tracker here

In the United States, in particular, bills that would have affirmed the rights of open source developers have sailed through committee votes, only to fail at the last minute in states such as Oregon, Texas and Oklahoma.

Open source bills have had greater success in other countries. No nation has yet written into law any preferences for open source software over proprietary. OSAIA, with the rest of the open source community, applauds any measure that protects the right of open source developers to compete on an equal footing with producers of closed source software.

OSAIA's World Policy Update will be revised as frequently as conditions change worldwide. If you know of activity transpiring, c