Thanks Milton,<div><br></div><div>Excellent points!... still, I suspect NGOs/NFPs have a few issues in common... </div><div><br></div><div>Alain<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The issue I guess I'm struggling with is "who speaks for whom"? I do not think individuals like myself or academics like yourself or IP lawyers for that matter can speak for the global NGO/NFP community...
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.25pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">Alain, no one speaks for anyone. Everyone speaks for themselves. There is no “global community” of nonprofits, there are (to use an
especially obvious example) nonprofits promoting leftwing views and some promoting rightwing views, there are nonprofits promoting Islam and some promoting Christianity, and every other religion you can name. there are foundations and nonprofits working against
abortion and others working for choice or for family planning. <u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">The point of NCSG is simply to balance commercial interests and perspectives with noncommercial ones. The idea that NCSG is going to have ONE VOICE on ALL issues
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