Blame WIPO, not the UN in general

Posted Dec 5, 2005 21:58 UTC (Mon) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)
In reply to: Tempest in a teapot by jmorris42
Parent article: Fellow Me: No more Vienna Manipulations!

The Vienna Conclusion is "a text that [has] the official acceptance of the UN WIPO agency" (link). It is well-known that the World Intellectual Property Organization represents the interests of proprietary software companies.

However, other UN agencies support free software. For example, UNESCO sponsors the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory.