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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Sasha Costanza-Chock <schock@asc.upenn.edu></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It seems we'll have to restoke the fires of FLOSSy ardor...<BR>sc<BR><BR>---<BR>Open Source Ardor Cools at WSIS<BR>From Computerworld, October 9, 2003<BR>By Stephen Bell<BR><BR>A push at a series of international "information society" conferences to<BR>adopt open source software as an aspect of electronic "common land" has<BR>assumed a lower profile with the apparent entry of lobbying from proprietary<BR>business interests.<BR><BR>A "plan of action" being prepared for the December World Summit on the<BR>Information Society (WSIS) championed wide adoption of open source software<BR>in June.<BR><BR>Suggested text in the draft then promoted open source awareness, the<BR>creation of intellectual property mechanisms supporting open source, and the<BR>formation of a UN "Programmers Without Frontiers" body to support open<BR>source software (OSS) in developing nations. "Open-source/f
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software<BR>shall be adopted by all public authorities and bodies," the draft stated<BR>ambitiously.<BR><BR>The Club of Rome economic think-tank came out particularly strongly in<BR>favour of open source in its submission to WSIS in August. It labelled OSS<BR>as one of the "common goods of mankind" and an aid to advancing the<BR>productive use of ICT in developing countries, where proprietary software is<BR>particularly expensive in real terms.<BR><BR>The latest form of the plan of action, however, replaces the open source<BR>endorsement with a recommendation to "encourage research and promote<BR>awareness among all stakeholders of the possibilities offered by different<BR>software models, and the means of their creation, including proprietary,<BR>open source and free software, in order to increase competition, freedom of<BR>choice and affordability, and to enable all stakeholders to evaluate which<BR>solution best meets their requirements."<BR><BR>Observers at the latest
preparatory conference to the summit (Prepcom-3) in<BR>Geneva, said the changes were made after input from several nations uneasy<BR>with excluding mentions of proprietary software from the plan, and from the<BR>business lobby, which came out strongly against open source.<BR><BR>Delegates from the US and European Union, they said, were prominent among<BR>those asking that commercial software interests get a fair representation.<BR><BR>The summit itself is due to be held in Geneva in December. Prepcom-3 was to<BR>have been the last preparatory conference, but emergency meetings have been<BR>scheduled next month to knock still vague documents riddled with alternative<BR>phraseology into a more definite shape before the summit.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Plenary mailing list<BR>Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/plenary</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><br><hr size=1>Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en frança
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