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
