Hello,

I read through some of the national documents and noticed that the western
nations are all zeroing on the on the open source issue. In particular, the US
document pretends that the emphasis on open source is a threat to the "freedom
of choice"

The US document also, for some reason, attempts to differentiate between open
standards and open source, which seems silly at first but immediately got my
attention because XML is usually both an open source language and an open
standard of communication, where as PDF and Microsoft Word are not. This is
suspicious to me, or maybe they are just ignorant.

Information built into complex structures is very likely the only way that
impoverished nations can communicate where only relevant subsets of the greater
body of information is transported to fit limited bandwidth. I am not sure
that XML can easily do this, and it lacks other necessary features such as
binary transport, but I have been using these techniques for years with Perl
complex structures.

Also I am seeing a wholesale avoidance of the technical issues which is a
mistake since, for instance, the Mosaic browser which became Netscape and the
NSCA server (now apache) have virtually dictated how we all handle information.

On the other hand, the papers that I have seen so far seek to dilute the social
components possibly to increase impoverished debt on behalf of Microsoft and
others. The greatest problem w/ closed technology is not the outset price but
the long term cost of not being able to build upon technology. All human
effort is derived from previous effort, suddenly, because we are digital, we
can no long behave as we have through the all time.

Despite my love to technology I have decided to develop a model for global
communications based entirely on openness, and I believe the the circle of
friends of a psychologist I am studying, Carl Rogers, actually invented the
concept of openness.

This I think will be the greatest contribution to Information Society and will
create an umbrella under which projects like OpenICT can function in a
supportive atmosphere protected from the likes of the jerks that claim to
represent my nation. I have also noted frustration from the forward thinking
NGOs, and a determined lack by richer nations to up the cash which would make
the WSIS a viable forum. So, do we really need them ??

Here are links to Linux Society WSIS documents, and the Thinman project where
Linux and its successors become the OS base of ICT operations.

http://www.thinman.com
http://thinman.dyndns.org/docs/wsis_Linux_society.html

John, President, Linux Society


> Stacy:
>
> ...oops sorry if I confused you. Just because he has submitted a paper
> doesn't automatically give him the right to make a presentation (or that he
> is attending).

***No we are not accredited and attending will depend on funds and available
time.

> (...when you are dealing with the whole world the number of hoops you have
> to jump through to get heard would make your head swim :-)
>
> Nevertheless, no harm done. If he responds you might ask if he is
> accredited and is attending, because I noticed that his paper is under the
> category of "misc." which includes a very informal "letter" from Canadian
> Journalists for Free Expression. It may be that the summit is accepting
> "unaccredited" input. If so, we need to find out!
>
> Scott
>
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: Stacy Gildenston <stacy@...>
> To: john@... <john@...>
> Cc: Scottl <scottl@...>, Evan Leibovitch <evan@...>
> Subject: Hello From LPI
> Date: 08/08/03 20:13
>
> >
> > Hey John,
> >
> > We noticed you are giving a presentation at WSIS, and thought we'd drop
> > you a note to say hello. Right now we are very likely going to be in
> > Geneva as well...and before hand, we'll be at TechX/PCExpo in NYC in
> > September...we'd love to get the chance to meet you and talk more about
> > what you are up to...learn more about how you are working with teenagers
> > and Linux.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -sg
> >
> > --
> > Stacy Gildenston
> > Director of Business Development
> > Linux Professional Institute
> > stacy@...
> > 603.430-9398 office
> > 603.498-2329 cell
> > 603.433-7590 fax
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>


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President, The Linux Society
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