Reading this proposed french law gives me shivers. Well, if you thought that the proposed EU data-retention directive is bad, it's extensions devilish how would you classify this? The proud republic is just about to churn this dictatorial law, infringing just about most of my intellectual human rights I can think of. Ok, my interests lie in computers more than most, but still, that is an ugly piece of legislation. Any free/open source software becoming illegal? Well, recently NYC2123 were mentioning that, in relation to Windows Moto Edition, but that's cyberpunk, this is reality. Whose sick mind can cojure such an appaling piece of legislation? Does that anonymous bunch of bureaucrats have a concept of what knowledge is? Does that bunch of people have any idea how much they are going to damage the French software industry itself, some of the best wares in the OSS world come from France, by the way.

I hope I'm just dreaming this distopia, or as they say in the former Soviet Union anti-utopia.

Cheers, to the gray suited eggheads on wine. Let them rule. We will soon be living in cyberpunk land. May your dreams come nil.