U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @09:51AM from the for-the-good-of-all-mankind dept.

StoneLion writes "The United Nations World Summit on Information Society was established to 'harness the potential of knowledge and technology' and to 'find effective and innovative ways to put this potential at the service of development for all.' You'd think open source software would be a natural for many UN member countries. But NewsForge's Joe Barr discovered that the US is driving policy for the organization, and its official position is that 'using free software to achieve the WSIS goals might get in the way of an intellectual property owner's ability to make a profit'; in other words, they want to make the world safe for capitalism." We've mentioned WSIS before. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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Unnecessary violence by Doesn't_Comment_Code · 2004-02-17 09:52 · Score: 4, Funny

U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit

That sounds oftly violent. Why didn't they just try to screw up all the meetings using their influence?

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Sweet, sweet confusion by Rawley · 2004-02-17 10:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Sweet Don Quixote, why can't they get it through their heads that higher quality is more important than higher profit?

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Re:ugh by DeltaSigma · 2004-02-17 10:01 · Score: 4, Funny

I simply suggest more torpedos in general.