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Eucd.info: Richard Stallman Pushed Back by the French Prime Minister’s Chief of Security

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“On Friday, June 9th 2006 at 3.30pm, after sending several
unanswered letters asking for an interview, and after warning of
his coming, Richard Stallman led a delegation composed by
Frédéric Couchet (Free Software Foundation France)
and Christophe Espern (EUCD.INFO initiative) to meet the French
Prime minister. The delegation wanted to talk about the French DRM
bill and give to the Prime minister a roll of paper containing the
names of the 165,000 individual signatures and 1000 collective
signatures (among which more than 200 companies such as Sun
Microsystems) to the EUCD.INFO petition. Richard Stallman and his
friends were held at bay by the Chief of security…”


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