I believe France has the worst legislation ever. As an end-user you are not allowed to make copies even of your own media if it involves circumventing DRM, and you still pay a tax on removable media (CD, DVD, hard drives, flash memory) and players (MP3, video, mobile phones) to cover for losses due to this. You are not allowed to download copyrighted stuff off the net (three strikes) but the government is preparing a new tax on all Internet users to cover for losses due to this. Of course copyright holders retain the right to sue your ass into oblivion even after being cut off the net, up to 300,000 euros fine and 3 years in jail. Not really efficient. In every French company and administration (including ministries) I have worked with you find at least one multi-TB server with more recent movies, music, software and books you could ever find time for in your whole life.

This "fluidity" as you say, is the bread and butter of all companies who need to put software on a Linux server for more than a year. Everywhere I can see, RedHat is used as the default OS for servers because it has been declared Oracle-compatible, and Fedora is only a testbed for RedHat. It is really a sad thing that people use the same distro for desktop as a testbed for server-based software, since they have completely different requirements. I do not blame RedHat, they do not have infinite resources. I blame companies for picking RedHat for anything server-based.