[cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

[Major Variola (ret)]

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!

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