Joe Barr published a critical article on the World Summit on Information Society, saying that it is doomed to failure because the American delegation is more interested in the profits of software companies than in really spreading information technology with cheaper open source software.
He may be right. I don't expect the WSIS to go anywhere as well.
But he also reports that open source proponents have not been paying any attention to the national WSIS preperation phase, leaving all the lobbying to outfits like the International AntiCounterfeitign Coalition and the Business Software Alliance. The American position for the WSIS seems to have been strongly influenced by that fact.
Slashdot discussion on this article here.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at February 18, 2004 10:28 AM | TrackBack