[Wsis-pct] Web Conferencing software test Re: [governance] Test of onlinesymposium software

[Richard Stallman]

    And after they will have stood firm against this and that, what will they
    do?

"What will they do" poses a rather vague question which therefore
has no answer.  If the question is how people can have a useful
discussion on some topic, here are some widely used methods that
I can suggest:

  email
  telephones (including conference calls)
  VOIP telephone (supported by free software)
  CU-seeme (now free software)

They may not be the perfectly convenient ideal solution you asked for,
but they do work, and they don't involve using non-free software.

    In the meantime, I don't think that the world can stop meeting online
    because there is no such application yet.

There are many other ways to have meetings.  People use them and they
work.  Please do not exaggerate a small inconvenience into a major
difficulty.

To use non-free software will have the effect of excluding certain
participants from the discussion: those that on ethical grounds will
not install such software on their computers.  We already press hard
against e-government practices that demand citizens use non-free
software to communicate with the government.  We will do likewise if
WSIS adopts such practices.  You have only seen the beginning of it
here.