Z:gnu-www-ja-wsis--bb3f2a-The summit may have a few usef/en

The summit may have a few useful side effects. For instance, several people came together to plan an organization to help organizations in Africa switch to GNU/Linux. But the summit did nothing to support this activity beyond providing an occasion for us to meet. Nor, I believe, was it intended to support any such thing. The overall attitude of the summit can be seen in its having invited Microsoft to speak alongside, and before, most of the various participating governments&mdash;as if to accord that criminal corporation the standing of a state.