Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 21, 2007 06:13 PM
From inside, it's not surprise that politics knows quite well FOSS.
The major reason is the DADVSI debacle, the discussion at the parliament was one of the worst ever seen, it was a such mess (the guy that was responsible for the law did not know anything concrete about copyright - and state of their violations - and there was one major music store that was demonstrating their online store and distributing free coupons to get some music, just before discussion openning) that every body was interested to know what happened, and then discovered that the debate was important.
The man that made it possible is Christian Paul, he explain what was the DRM issues (users freedom, gives total control of culture to majors, etc, etc.). He did his job very well, so well that it was very interesting, even for tech savvys.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 21, 2007 06:13 PMFrom inside, it's not surprise that politics knows quite well FOSS.
The major reason is the DADVSI debacle, the discussion at the parliament was one of the worst ever seen, it was a such mess (the guy that was responsible for the law did not know anything concrete about copyright - and state of their violations - and there was one major music store that was demonstrating their online store and distributing free coupons to get some music, just before discussion openning) that every body was interested to know what happened, and then discovered that the debate was important.
The man that made it possible is Christian Paul, he explain what was the DRM issues (users freedom, gives total control of culture to majors, etc, etc.). He did his job very well, so well that it was very interesting, even for tech savvys.
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