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A Wonderful Panel Discussion!A Wonderful Panel Discussion!Posted Oct 19, 2006 4:51 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)Parent article: A Question of Choice (Linux Journal)
I wanted to point out a wonderful panel discussion - this was a discussion at the World Summit on the Information Society. Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens gave 20-minute keynotes discussing free and open source software, followed by a guy from CompTIA (that is behind the Institute of [no] Software Choice). The guy from CompTIA rambled on excessively and at a speed such that you could not understand him. A gentleman from Intel followed and said little, after which a UN ambassador spoke of how the freedoms of free software are aligned with what the UN seeks. Mark Shuttleworth gave the last speech. There were a few questions asked of the participants afterwards. The big issues were pro-free-software legislation in countries like Brazil (which the ISnC opposes for obvious reasons) and software patents. I'm absolutely pleased to say that the guy from CompTIA had his rear handed to him! It was really amazing to see how simply having the right message and being on the right side of an argument makes your statements so much more powerful.
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