On 05/10/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
After a short introduction to Wikipedia, with proper
figures ("4,4
millions of french electors are visiting Wikipedia every month" - I
could see every one bending to write down the scary fact that 1/10
french electors was a Wikipedia user), I insisted on two facts.
First is the DADVSI law (which was supported by UMP - making them the
real bad guys for free software supporters) - please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI with this relevant bit
"The law was highly controversial within France for it could
significantly hamper free software, and also may significantly restrict
the right to make copies of copyrighted works for private use.
Second was to talk about the fact USA releases information in Public
Domain, versus our government (and more generally the EU, or most public
organisations) under classical cp. I mentionned as examples
* most pictures of french politicians on wp being from the US
governement (not the french gvt)
* Spatial research images from the NASA rather than ESA
Oh, that's excellent! Well done!
I was invited to later talk privately to the person in
charge of ict et
al from the office of Mr Sarkozy. I'll try to take care of that in november.
Guys, I hope you all feel the power of what we are building. This is HUGE.
Indeed.
- d.