Re: [Axiom-developer] surely this must be a joke

[Eugene Surowitz]

Actually this should be taken very seriously.

I strongly suggest that everyone interested in the fate of
open software should subscribe to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's
newletter at

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There is much more seriously going on than French faux pas.

Cheers, Gene

Pierre Doucy wrote:
> Actually, what I understand is that they want to assimilate to
> conterfeiting the fact of "editing, distributing, or promoting any
> software that might be used to allow access to information protected
> by intellectual property rights"
>
> Although completely silly, its does not exactly mean banning open
> source software at large (but for instance, it would mean banning web
> browsers because you can potentially use it to illegally download
> MP3s...)
>
> Although some of our legislators are complete morons when it comes to
> high tech (I know some of them personally), especially when law
> proposals are lobbied by big companies, but I believe it just has no
> chance of becoming law. Way too much businesses would be harmed, and
> lawmakers understand that.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Pierre
>
> On 12/3/05, root <address@hidden> wrote:
> > French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software
> >
> > http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
> >
> >
> > If not, lets hope that the lead developers of algebra software
> > in france are willing to give up the title and pass it on to
> > someone else as well as hosting their software elsewhere.
> >
> > France is a great source of computer algebra experts and they
> > have several beautiful computer algebra packages.
> >
> > We could host them on axiom-developer if needed and give the
> > pro-forma official title of lead developer to someone who does
> > not live in france.
> >
> > t
> >
> >
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