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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:53:30 +0200
From: fermigier <sf@fermigier.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: [France] Proposition de loi Le Deaut.

Hi,

The Le Deaut / Paul / Cohen proposal (http://www.osslaw.org/) 
has already been covered on the following sites (AFAIK):

http://slashdot.org/yro/00/04/24/1226202.shtml
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35862,00.html
http://www.zdnet.fr/cgi-bin/a_actu.pl?File_ini=a_actu.zd&ID=14072
http://www.reseaux-telecoms.net/news/avril00/n_3165.htm
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/8077/1.html
http://www.portalux.com/nnl/723.html
http://www.lmi.fr/src/lmi/homepage.nsf/Pages/InfoQuotidiennes?OpenDocument
http://www.intern.de/news/521.html
http://www.linuxenrezo.org/index.php?page=addcom.php3&id_news=107
http://www.beopen.com/news/newsitems/685a.html
http://c-est-tout.com/infos/info_339.shtml
http://www.barrapunto.com/articles/100/04/25/1036221.shtml
http://linuxfr.org/news/?oi=95659885320180
http://www.nerdperfect.com/display.php3?sid=125
http://www.pssst.qc.ca/
http://www.jguru.com/portal/
http://www.01net.com/contenus/ArtCourt/News/0,2831,103982+{}+1160,00.html
http://www.libe.com/quotidien/semaine/20000428venx.html
http://gcu-squad.org/index.php3?comments+45
http://www.dna.fr/dna/multimedia/breves.html
http://cyberpolitik.free.fr/informatique/polinfo/polinfo.html
http://www.illico.org/public/annonces/communique-loi.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/4/25/23244/1730
http://www.geeknews.org/news/apr00/newsitem087.html
http://www.zipiz.com/index1.htm
http://eea.eionet.eu.int/announcements.html
http://www.vnunet.fr/VNU2/svm/actualites/page_article.htm?id=0&FULL=1&numero=4710&date=2000-04-26
http://lwn.net/2000/0427/
http://www.internetactu.com/archives/une/une33.html
http://www.internetactu.com/archives/dossiers/ledeaut/index.html

(Note: LWN / daily was the first to publish the news, but I don't know if
it is archived somewhere).

Many journalists where confused by the difference between ``Open
Standards'' and ``Open Source Software'' (a.k.a Free Software, a.k.a.
logiciel libre). One instance of such a confusion (in english) is

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35862,00.html

The most insightful comments so far, in French and in my opinion, where 

http://www.internetactu.com/archives/une/une33.html

and

http://www.libe.com/quotidien/semaine/20000428venx.html

(Note that Le Monde hasn't covered the news yet. That doesn't suprise us.)

You can also read further explainations by J-Y Le Déaut himself in

http://www.internetactu.com/archives/dossiers/ledeaut/index.html

The french association ILLICO has issued a press release to support
the proposal (we hope that most french Linux / Free Software associations
will do the same):

http://www.illico.org/public/annonces/communique-loi.html

Regards,

	S.

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