French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Sat Dec 3 13:29:07 UTC 2005


Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com>
> [...] Now, MJ Ray has suggested that they may be trying to prevent
> people published source code that could be adjusted to circumvent DRM in
> the future - that would be an obviously terrible extension of the
> already bad EUCD situation. 

Not quite. I think it's source code that you know *is* being used
to circumvent Digital Restriction Measures (perhaps by modification).

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