[ Thanks to Greta
Durr for this link. ]
“A law proposed by three French Members of Parliament (MPs)
would require source code to be accessible to those who use
it–effectively outlawing “closed” software.”
“Jean-Yves Le Diaut, Christian Paul, and Pierre Cohen drafted
the proposal of the law (bill, in the U.S. system), which they say
is “based on five historical, judicial or constitutional
principles: free access to public information, retreivability of
public data, national security, consumer security and
interoperability.”
“The law is necessary, their proposal states, because “major
breakthroughs in the use of information technology require some
judicial backup.” Although major improvements have been achieved,
many government agencies are still using communication standards
linked to a single provider, stimulating “abuses of dominant
position in the market,” the proposal continues.”