French “iPod Law” violates Human Rights

The so-called “iPod law” contains reduced fines for file sharing and forced companies to open their DRM specification to enable competition. The French Constitutional Council has declared this aspects unconstitutional. The justification: The “iPod law” violated the Human Right of constitutional protections of property. Mr. Menard, a partner at the Lovells law firm and a Read more »

Is Free/Open Source Software the Answer?

"Is Free/Open Source Software the Answere?" was the topic of a panel discussion at the  World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Tunis on 18 November 2005. People like Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens and Mark Shuttleworth participated in it. Now the recording of this panel discussion is available at http://www.iosn.net/regional/wsis-2005