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  • From: "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>
  • To: internetworkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Microsoft directing US foreign policy?
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:04:02 -0500

This is just too much.

How, for heaven's sake, can a convicted felon be directing US foreign policy?

http://www.idg.net/ic_1020582_9677_1-5043.html

A three-day meeting that brought together Asian governments, organizations,
companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ended Wednesday morning
with the approval of a declaration that, among other things, calls for
encouraging the development of open-source software. A draft of the
declaration had called for open source to be "supported" but was changed
after objections from the U.S. government delegation late Tuesday night.

The U.S. opposition was largely perceived to be support for its domestic
software companies and in particular Microsoft Corp., said officials from
other governments on the sidelines of the conference on Wednesday. After a
short debate with a number of countries, including Pakistan, that wanted the
original language to remain, all sides finally reached agreement and the
declaration was changed to read: "Development and deployment of open-source
software should be encouraged, as appropriate, as should open standards for
ICT (information and communications technology) networking."



Plainly outrageous.



Salut,
Josep
--
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
MaDuIxA PoWeR!




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