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

[Michael Sondow]

Thank you for the clarififcation, Richard. Sorry I got things confused.

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
>     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.