11 Sep
2003
11 Sep
'03
2:13 p.m.
At 05:45 PM 9/10/03 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
"open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO which is to promote intellectual-property rights...To hold a meeting which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to the goals of WIPO."
Not surprising. Any beast that sees its habitat being destroyed will react this way. At the least, not running a conference for it; and perhaps lobbying beyond their charter. One imagines the Telegraph Union vigorously opposed the introduction of telephones. And think of the National Security (tm) implications of peer-to-peer communications like telephony! ------- One man's blowback is another man's feedback