MS Has Free Software Removed From U.N. Paper

linumax writes "Microsoft asked for references to free software to be removed from a document presented at last week's UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is unhappy that the document was changed and claims that even though it was on the panel discussing the document, it was not made aware of Microsoft's changes. The document (2.8MB PDF), known as the Vienna Conclusions, discusses issues around IT and creativity. The original draft of the document discussed how the free software model is changing the way people do business."

Comments

Re:No Surprise

[tomstdenis]

"sufficient quality"

How about superior quality.

I can't see how an X11 desktop like that provided by Gnome [or KDE or the dozen other WMs out there] isn't just plain superior to Windows. I got my pretty icons, I can double click shortcuts, drag+drop files/folders/etc ... but I can also do things like have multiple desktops which is something I use religiously.

Then there are the tools you get to use. gmplayer > mediaplayer, gaim > msn, openoffice > wordpad, bash > cmd, etc, etc, etc.

Microsoft like most businesses relies far too heavily on non-technical issues to make arguments in a technical debate.

Tom

Re:Top 10 Ways to "play dirty" with Microsoft:

[Hosiah]

Try again, Michael Hood. Your second attempt led to the discovery of HTML tags to keep paragraphs formatted. Maybe you'll get even smarter on your *third* attempt!