WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source

Posted by michael on Friday August 22, 2003 @11:23AM from the thou-shalt-not-speak-its-name dept.

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.

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No! No! No! by Un+pobre+guey · 2003-08-22 12:26 · Score: 2, Offtopic

You goddamn commie!
No sir! I'm in California, and come October 7, I'm going to vote for someone who can kick some { commie | French | Al Qaeda | People who don't invest in lobbyists } ass! That means you you { fuckin' | goddamn } { foreign | wimp-ass} piece of shit!
Vote for The Terminator for Governor. Come 2008, he'll be back!
Sigh.
Actually, I'd sooner shoot myself. My vote is for Georgy.