French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:58 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:13 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> > Well I propose that software includes calls to validation scripts to
> > implement such measures, and that such scripts be specifiable by
> > environment variables in order to upgrade such scripts to provide the
> > er.. latest enforcement that is avilable.
> > 
> > That would meet the requirements of the law? Which seemed to suggest
> > that ir was lack of control that was objectionable.
> 
> Can you modify the variable to use a script that always returns true?
> Yes.
> 
> Then that strategy is likely illegal under that law.

You can do the same with proprietary, closed source, software.
Have you ever heard of disassemblers and binary patches ?

Simo.

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