[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Open Letter to Delegates

[Richard Stallman]

    To offset this, it would be particularly useful to have some
    representatives of the international Internet open-source movement
    insist on attending,

If they are representatives of "open source", they may not care strongly
enough.

The open-source movement was founded, in 1998, specifically to reject
the idealism and firmness of principle of the older free software
movement.  The issue, as they present it, is merely economic, a matter
of a "development model" that they claim usually gives better results.
They recommend using this model, but they don't condemn other models.
Many of them see no reason to go so far as to fight against any law or
treaty even if it would make use of their model more difficult in some
cases.

In the free software movement we say that software should always
be free, and we are ready to fight against laws that prohibit this.
I try to do what Manon suggests that I do.