According to a press release from Free Software Foundation France, the French government is on the point of banning free software.
The French revolution may have removed the royal family, but a couple of hundred years later it looks like the new royalty are removing liberties from the populace.
If it was April 1st I would consider this a joke and laugh it off, however it seems to be the truth.
I would wonder if this is even legal. Surely it constitutes an infringement of a freedom of expression etc.,?
Scary stuff! Will they be forced to use Internet Exploder too? I am not too sure what the motive of the government actually is, but I can only speculate. Perhaps it is shielding people's job -- people in the software industry, that is. Maybe it is the realisation of that DRM and the like suffer from OSS (if not vice versa).