"UNCTAD will be hosting an Intergovernmental Expert Meeting on Free and Open source Software. The Meeting will take place in Geneva on 22-24 September. The official Notification of the Secretary General has been issued on 1 June 2004 and includes information for participants...
"Free and open-source software (FOSS) challenges our preconceptions about how software is used, produced and distributed and the associated freedoms and responsibilities. FOSS is software that has made its source code open to the public and freely available. It frees users to alter the code and redistribute the same or derivative software. FOSS encourages, or even obliges, programmers to give other programmers and users those same freedoms and opportunities..."
