http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/06/2030242
I posted:
Pro-software patent, DMCA and voting machines Most important for slashdot readers: Nicolas Sarkozy is a lawyer and has a very strong pro-software patent stance and was behind the hardline DADVSI [wikipedia.org] copyright law (our local DMCA). He was also behind the introduction of voting machines without paper trail requirements, and of the "secret" report about their validity (no citizen could get the report. More in the PDF with his answers to the "candidats.fr" initiative here. Hard time for free software in France. There are still the parliament election next month, but last time french voters put the majority behind the president.
Most important for slashdot readers: Nicolas Sarkozy is a lawyer and has a very strong pro-software patent stance and was behind the hardline DADVSI [wikipedia.org] copyright law (our local DMCA). He was also behind the introduction of voting machines without paper trail requirements, and of the "secret" report about their validity (no citizen could get the report.
More in the PDF with his answers to the "candidats.fr" initiative here.
Hard time for free software in France. There are still the parliament election next month, but last time french voters put the majority behind the president.
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233693&cid=19013305
I'm taking TGV tomorrow to bring me back in the socialist south :) tomorrow morning for a week of vacation, see you at monday's open thread!
