On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 06:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When addressing the need for global organizations that will raise the > participation > and well-being of less-privileged global communities it might be more > efficient to > leave the 'for-profit' persons/organizations to their own activities > unless they want to > engage as 'non-profit' participants.
I think the question is more "profit for whom" rather than "profit vs non-profit". FOSS tends to facilitate modest profits for local companies which provide services where the software is deployed or required, not repatriated "superprofits" (to use the formal neo-Marxist term) for large software multinationals (very often US-based, it must be said). > Automatically including the US or > allowing it a > superior position in an organization such as WSIS is courting failure. Sadly, yes. > This applies equally to all other nations that chose to foster their own > interests. Or rather, less altruistically but more practically, rich nations which fail to see that in the present and worsening levels of global inequity lie the seeds of their own demise. By "gloabl inequity" I mean maldistribution of wealth both between countries and within countries. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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