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WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source
panthan writes "The Washington Post has has an article about a proposed meeting of the WIPO concerning open source having been removed from consideration, apparently due to pressure from the US State Department and the USPTO. 'In short order, lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups were pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. One lobbyist, Emery Simon with the Business Software Alliance, said his group objected to the suggestion in the proposal that overly broad or restrictive intellectual-property rights might in some cases stunt technological innovation and economic growth.'" Lawrence Lessig has some comments.
you are such a fucking loser.
I've always been behind Microsoft most of the time and I defended them again and again but this takes the cake. I see lobby groups as anti-democratic.
On the other hand this whole thing started with the US DOJ trying to sue MS and tell them what to do, well looks like it ended with MS smartening up, pooring some money into lobby groups in order to tell the government what to do. The government shouldn't have messed with Microsoft to begin with.
Well I guess next time you shouldn't go and fight in imperialist wars.
seems like you got bored of him real quick egh ?, he was the most evilist man alive, you spent billions on smashing his country up and you still didnt find him
tell your kids to enjoy those tax bills paying for it though
>So, when choosing between two equally functional but differently-priced solutions, a depressingly large amount of the time, the government chooses the costlier product. The vendor and the department both win, and as usual taxpayers get stuck holding the bag.
ah, but NOT SO with this president.
HE CUT TAXES.
We taxpayers are saving a bundle!!!
Mommy, what's "interest"? -Shrub