U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit 490
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.
Unnecessary violence (Score:5, Funny)
That sounds oftly violent. Why didn't they just try to screw up all the meetings using their influence?
Sweet, sweet confusion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ugh (Score:5, Funny)
U.S. Policy (Score:4, Funny)
-chill
I think Linus had something to say on that (Score:2, Funny)
Re:U.S. Policy (Score:2, Funny)
You used backslashes? Unix wannabe poseur!
Reminds me of SCO defense ... (Score:3, Funny)
I know this assertion is attributed to the US Govt, but sounds like Darl from good ole' SCO could have said the exact same thing too!
Re:Unnecessary violence (Score:3, Funny)
What is that?
THE UN CAN SHOVE IT (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks
-- George W Bush
Summary of what Michael thinks (Score:1, Funny)
Re:USA land of the rich, but not free (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Unnecessary violence (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Unnecessary violence (Score:2, Funny)