Was Tunis a missed oppurtunity?
Newsforge and ComputerWorld seem to think so, with the only major story involving open source to emerge being that of Nicholas Negroponte / MIT’s lime green low-cost Linux laptop. Richard Stallman had this to say:
“I don’t know why I’m here, frankly, […]Maybe because I was asked to speak.”
“Everything was decided at the first summit in Geneva two years ago when the U.S. government tried to have free software removed from the original document, but Brazil blocked that attempt,” said Stallman in an interview Thursday evening at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). “The result was a compromise, a watered-down, neutral paper.”
That said, he did manage to get his collar felt by UN security, which I would have thought would have been a novel experience at the least.