French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

[MJ Ray]

Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com>
> So, I don't see that on the face of it, the French proposal makes much
> difference, unless what they're somehow trying to do is prevent people
> from distributing the source to (say) evince, because a hacker could get
> in there and remove all the code that respects those silly PDF flags?

I think you've hit it head-on. You know that people can do that, so
it seems it would be criminal for you not to act to prevent them,
if the DADVSI law was in effect. With free software, I can't think
how else you can prevent them besides ceasing evince distribution.

Like the FSF France wrote, this looks like it lets the DRMers
stop free software distribution and many other things. I've
just posted another translation (and less of a sleep-walk than
the last one) which I found a bit clearer than the EUCD.info one.

Hope it helps,
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