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France Hostile To Open Source Software?
AdamWeeden writes "According to the Free Software Foundation of France the French Department of Culture is telling free (as in speech) software providers that 'You will be required to change your licenses ... You shall stop publishing free software,' and warn they are ready 'to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code.'" From the post: "It appears that publishing Free Software giving access to culture is about to become a counterfeiting criminal offence. Will SACEM sue France Télécom R&D research labs for having published Maay and Solipsis (P2P pieces of software used to exchange data)? Up to this point, the rather technical debate surrounding the issues addressed by DADVSI bill (copyright and neighbouring rights in the information society) makes one ask: Just how much control do the Big Players in the field of culture want to seize? It now looks like years of quibbling have put an end to compromises." More information on the DADVSI bill is available at Infos-du-net.com. They've come a long way since last year.
huile pour la nourriture "oil for food"
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The 8th century AD.
Didn't last very long though.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
No, the US paid for its oil illegally, as it says a mere two sentences prior in the article to which I linked: "In all, Berkovitz said that the 525 million barrels of Iraqi oil -- about 660,000 barrels per day -- that ended up in U.S. hands during the two-year surcharge period amounted to $118 million in illegal surcharges paid to Iraq by the United States".
The next two sentences say "Bayoil was responsible for importing 200 million of the 525 million barrels of oil received by the United States, he said. The committee singled out the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, which the United Nations repeatedly warned about Bayoil's scheme".
So you're just lying to attack me. You probably don't even hesitate long enough to click the link I posted. You don't care about Oil for Food, Iraq, the truth or anything else. You just lurk around waiting for a chance to call me childish names and lie about real matters that concern real adults. Get out of the way and take your petty vendettas out on yourself.
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