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U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit
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.
Here AGAIN we see IP working as intended. It's shame that almost nobody realizes that the whole idea of IP is truly evil. But there's money to be made, so carry on.
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The UN is pretty much irrelevant now anyway. We ensured that by attacking Iraq when the UN really, really didn't want us to. So now the UN has been proven a farce, but the rest of the world won't admit it because they're afraid of what the US might do if they did. The UN was basically started as a deterrant against future wars. The fact that we so easily sidestepped them with absolutely no consequences (and the fact that the rest of the countries in the world started sucking our dick after we began handing out "rebuilding contracts") proves that the UN is completely meaningless.