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Bill: Proprietary Software Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Phillipsian Party of Ikradon
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 3484
Description[?]:
| We believe that there is no issue with closed-source software, and should be an option, but it should be heavily regulated as well. -Joe Phillips, Former President of Ikradon and Leader of the Phillipsian Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on the source code of software.
Old value:: The government requires that all source be opened.
Current: The government allows both open and closed source software.
Proposed: The government does not require that all source be opened but heavilly regulates closed source software.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:54:44, May 11, 2013 CET | From |  PDP (Pro Dictatorship Party) | To | Debating the Proprietary Software Act |
| Message | We wish to know what benefits the Phillipsian Party has on this endeavor... We also wish to ask as to what context and reason this may be necessary. |
| Date | 19:15:13, May 11, 2013 CET | From | Phillipsian Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Proprietary Software Act |
| Message | Maybe some voters will personally benefit from this, but certainly not our MP's or party leadership, as none of us are software developers. We know that certain companies like to use proprietary methods for their software. We disagree with it, but we feel it should be allowed to a limited extent. -Joe Phillips, Former President of Ikradon and Leader of the Phillipsian Party |
| Date | 19:20:23, May 11, 2013 CET | From | PDP (Pro Dictatorship Party) | To | Debating the Proprietary Software Act |
| Message | The PDP is still on the fence. We wish to know more on both for and against before we make the symbolic vote. |
| Date | 22:11:18, May 11, 2013 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Proprietary Software Act |
| Message | We feel that patents are unethical and an impediment to progress. In the age of computing technology and the internet, information yearns to be free. We truly can have abundance when data can be copied, without losing access to the original. No one loses use of the product. The only concern is compensation for unique development of the software. That is what I had hoped to begin with my Bill for Youth Creativity. Spark an initiative for government compensation to inventors and innovators, instead of implementing a burdensome patent system which can only be abused. |
| Date | 01:05:32, May 12, 2013 CET | From | PDP (Pro Dictatorship Party) | To | Debating the Proprietary Software Act |
| Message | Interesting point brought up by the SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL). We wish to hear more on this matter both for and against as we find that the only point truly made reasonable is the one against this bill. Unless a better argument can be made we see ourselves standing alongside the no in the coming vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 435 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 248 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 67 |
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