Open Source: the New Thought Crime

From the UK's Guardian: When using open source makes you an enemy of the state:

[Andres] Guadamuz has done some digging and discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy - or even worse.
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...it seems astonishing to me that anyone should imply that simply recommending open source products - products that can be more easily tailored without infringing licensing rules - "undermines" anything.

I'm astonished as well. I'd like to see governments put more emphasis on developing and using open source software.