French PM Unreceptive To RMS

An anonymous reader writes "Six month after the publication of very bad amendments to French DRM law proposal, Richard Stallman has been pushed back by the chief of security team of French Prime minister. On Friday 9th of June 2006 at 3.30pm, Richard Stallman, president of Free Software Foundation, led a delegation composed by Frédéric Couchet (Free Software Foundation France) and Christophe Espern (EUCD.INFO initiative) to meet the French Prime minister in order to talk about the French DRM law proposal and to deliver the EUCD.INFO petition signed by more than 165,000 French residents. Richard Stallman and his friends were pushed back by the chief of security team. "

RMS!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Word of Advice: DO NOT try this in your home country.

They Resisted Something?

[Anonymous Coward]

What happened, they were all out of white flags?

Re:Shocking

[I Like Pudding]

Flamebait my ass. If making fun of the French is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Now go away...

[Billosaur]

On Friday 9th of June 2006 at 3.30pm, 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 in order to talk about the French DRM law proposal. Richard Stallman and his friends were pushed back by the chief of security team.

...or we will taunt you a second time!

Re:RMS!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. RMS is nearly as important as Lyndon LaRouche.

Poor PM...

[DMiax]

... having RMS after you mustn't be a nice experience! He is the real victim of this. :P

And here I was thinking

[markov_chain]

the story was about a poorly designed French Power Module not working with alternating current

parfume

[drwho]

I'd say it was because of RMS' bodily odor, but then I remembered that this was France we're talking about.

I misread that!

[kimvette]

At first glance I mis-read the headline as "French PM unreceptive to PMS" and my first thought was he must not get along well with his wife. *chuckle*

The next step

[Anonymous Coward]

So from my understanding of the French political process, the next step is to barricade all major French highways with piles of computers running Windows, right?

Of course, if it had been a German invasion...

[Anonymous Coward]

The schedule would have been cleared to welcome their new Teutonic overlords!

Re:RMS!

[shawn(at)fsu]

I was reading this and saw the 165,000 figure and I knew that couldn't be much of the population. I checked wikipedia and it amounts to .2% of the population. .2%, so i wondered what other groups made .2% or more of a population and figured I checked the amount of people who said they were Jedi for a religion in Britain. That came in at .7% of the countries population.

Geee and he wasn't allowed in right away......

Actual excuse used...

[MarkGriz]

"The PM of France might just have a few things on his plate that he considers more important."

Yes, Mr Stallman, the Prime Minister would love to meet with you but I'm afraid he will be busy washing his hair that day.

Re:RMS!

[secolactico]

Maybe he sent the rejection notice in .doc format, and RMS' system automatically rejects all attachements in a non free document format.

Re:Actual excuse used...

[shark72]

"Yes, Mr Stallman, the Prime Minister would love to meet with you but I'm afraid he will be busy washing his hair that day."

A tactical mistake. Having met RMS, I suspect that hair-washing is something to which he does not attach particular importance.

French Corollary of Godwin's Law

[Xillimiandus]

As an online discussion in english involving french people, France, or anything somehow related grows longer, the probability of an use of the verb "surrender" approaches one.

Re:RMS!

[Hoi Polloi]

When I worked in Cambridge, Mass, I was near enough to MIT to see what a coworker and I called "The Cult of Richard Stallman". It consisted of the occasional solitary pudgy male wearing at least a too-tight black t-shirt if not all black. The t-shirt usually had a computer reference on it (usually a Linux penguin) or an anime image. An unkempt and long beard and hair were requirements.

Since I never talked to one of these guys I can't say for certain if any of them has ever said "Worst episode ever!".

Re:No appointment and he was pushed back? Horror!

[Petrushka]

Damn those decimal points! Er, commas. Damn them!