[cdr] Inferno: USPTO p0wn3d (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

I didn't write that, only passed it along.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

> 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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