And another Ubuntu convert!

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:37 +0100, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   
>> And... by the way... EU Directives are not a law. Member states are
>> asked to implement a local equivalent. Each state implements
>> differently. Not all do.
>>     
>
> The DMCA does not apply, but a directive will likely shape a very
> similar law in all member states that does the same thing. The same
> (plus maybe additional) software is affected as with the DMCA. What's
> your point?
>   
That the original poster mentionning DMCA has a very US-centric
perspective...
> (And thanks for you efforts to lobby against it!)
>   
And if you want to see what I did about DADVSI and care to translate
from French to English, just google "gravier dadvsi"... first few links
are from me (yes, the sun blog entries - mine was used to represent
Sun's official position to the French government as part of the lobbying
efforts).

Gilles.