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French PM Unreceptive To RMS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the poor-reception dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Six month after the publication of very bad amendments to French DRM law proposal, Richard Stallman has been pushed back by the chief of security team of French Prime minister. On Friday 9th of June 2006 at 3.30pm, Richard Stallman, president of Free Software Foundation, led a delegation composed by Frédéric Couchet (Free Software Foundation France) and Christophe Espern (EUCD.INFO initiative) to meet the French Prime minister in order to talk about the French DRM law proposal and to deliver the EUCD.INFO petition signed by more than 165,000 French residents. Richard Stallman and his friends were pushed back by the chief of security team. "

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  1. RMS! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Word of Advice: DO NOT try this in your home country.

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    1. Re:RMS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow. RMS is nearly as important as Lyndon LaRouche.

    2. Re:RMS! by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was reading this and saw the 165,000 figure and I knew that couldn't be much of the population. I checked wikipedia and it amounts to .2% of the population. .2%, so i wondered what other groups made .2% or more of a population and figured I checked the amount of people who said they were Jedi for a religion in Britain. That came in at .7% of the countries population.

      Geee and he wasn't allowed in right away......

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    3. Re:RMS! by secolactico · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe he sent the rejection notice in .doc format, and RMS' system automatically rejects all attachements in a non free document format.

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  2. Re:Shocking by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 4, Funny

    Flamebait my ass. If making fun of the French is wrong, I don't want to be right.

  3. Now go away... by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    On Friday 9th of June 2006 at 3.30pm, Richard Stallman led a delegation composed by Frédéric Couchet (Free Software Foundation France) and Christophe Espern (EUCD.INFO initiative) to meet the French Prime minister in order to talk about the French DRM law proposal. Richard Stallman and his friends were pushed back by the chief of security team.

    ...or we will taunt you a second time!

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  4. parfume by drwho · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd say it was because of RMS' bodily odor, but then I remembered that this was France we're talking about.

  5. I misread that! by kimvette · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first glance I mis-read the headline as "French PM unreceptive to PMS" and my first thought was he must not get along well with his wife. *chuckle*

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