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France Pushes to Ban Free Software
skyman8081:
From FSF France
--- Quote ---Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament.
It appears that publishing Free Software giving access to culture is about to become a counterfeiting criminal offence. Will SACEM sue France T
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Refalm:
It seems governments don't know what they want with software.
For example, the Dutch government wants open standards, but has just made a deal with Microsoft to provide them with software, which will cause a lock-in, possibly for the Dutch citizens too.
The European Parlement wants open standards too, yet it wants to push software patents. I believe it's misinformation and listening only to the big players in the field, like Adobe, Microsoft, etc.
Dark_Me:
What do they mean by "culture"?
And how the hell did the persercuting lawyers not take one look at this proposal to ban free software and not laugh their asses off?
Laukev7:
--- Quote ---And how the hell did the persercuting lawyers not take one look at this proposal to ban free software and not laugh their asses off?
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Because they were bribed?
sledz41:
Thats terrible, I hope that doesn't go through.
Its banning innovation and creativity in the software field and locking in Microsoft to have full domination of software. It's as bad as banning free speech.
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