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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