TurquoiseB wrote: >--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>So (as a software developer) explain this lame French idea: >>http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html >> >> > >Protectionism. > >And about as effective as banning the use of the >word 'email' in official French government correspond- >ance out of a misguided desire to protect the French >language from encroaching foreign cognate words. >Everybody laughed at them and continued to use the >word 'email' anyway. Everybody will laugh at this >and continue to take advantage of free software >anyway. > >It's just how things are done here. The guvmint bans >things, everybody ignores the ban, and after a year >or so the guvmint forgets about the whole subject. :-) > > > Well it has many of the European programmers upset and it clearly the work of an idiot who does not understand the software industry at all. In the US we have the crappy Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) piece of crap that was drafted by imbeciles who didn't know what they were doing at the behest of Disney who were freaked that Mickey Mouse was about to become public domain under existing copyright laws at the time.
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