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From: Katherine Morrow <kmorrow@bellanet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: [bellanet-l] InfoWorld: WSIS delegates fail to agree on Open Source
"Support"
> Excerpt from an article in InfoWorld by Martyn Williams:
>
> TOKYO -- A three-day meeting [of the Asia-Pacific Regional
> Conference] 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. [...] 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."
>
> Read more:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/15/030115hnwsisos_1.html
>
> Source: Bytesforall
>
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