On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:58:42 +0100, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Damir Perisa schrieb: >> because of interests of the entertainment industry >> (Unterhaltungsindustrie), the european union (EU) cultural ministerium >> considers forbidding open source. >> >> source: >> http://www.quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/index?funktion=view&id=000100003441 > > Unfortunately, the article does not say exactly who is planning what. As > always in the EU, discussion is kept away from the public (like with the > recent "Big Brother" directive) and things are done as non-transparently > as possible. > > I knew that the French were planning to abandon OSS, but the EU plans > are new to me. > Fortunately, even if the plans succeed, it will not work. Noone will > stop using OSS, and noone can force them to do so. The only consequence > is that - again - more innocent people will be considered criminals. > I strongly support what Damir Oscar & Thomas said on this dark subject. French Assembly rejected yesterday a hideous Law project that comes more or less from big majors or selfish artists. That law wants to makes without-DRM-software out of the law ! A petition launched to counter this Project allready received ~150.000 signatures. >13.000 artists said (anonymously) they're oposed to such a law, but main reliable action are coming from Software Cies & Open Source community. And a lot of web sites are supporting (like mine on the windows/news branch). The matter is that mainstream medias focus on "sharing illegal stuff like Music" & "That'll kill artists". They barelly say something about P2P sharing legal stuff, French software & Open Source Cies (like Mandriva) :( For those of you that may read French a bit, Le Monde (one of the main French Newspaper) just published a article about that law the French Government (did I write Majors) wants to implement ASAP. It's so well writen I give you the title & link right away. "La loi sur le droit d'auteur va-t-elle renforcer la position des géants du logiciel ?" LEMONDE.FR | 20.12.05 | 14h28 • Mis à jour le 21.12.05 | 17h45 http://www.lemonde.fr/web/chat/0,[EMAIL PROTECTED],55-723276,0.html -- Salutations, kozaki.dev [~] > Arch, Mandrake~iva x86_64 & Ubuntu Linux ------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || Et puis Linux, c'est bien sympa, mais la personne qui pleure quand ce qu'il faut faire est plus compliqué que double cliquer sur une icone, elle fait comment ? --> http://c.laloy.free.fr/howtos/ ! Arch Linux 0.7.1 Wombat on : - Linux 2.6.13-ARCH #1 SMP Sun Oct 23 10:51:42 CEST 2005 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ~ gcc-4.0.2 - Linux llewellyn2 2.6.14-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 20:01:06 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ~ 4.1.0 20051112 (experimental) - Linux llewellyn 2.6.14-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 20:01:06 CET 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
