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4 years blogging
Dec 20th
My blog has just celebrated its 4th birthday.
161 posts, only 190 comments, but the statistics shows a stable increase in the number of visitors (in average a bit less than 500 unique visitors per day).
During the week-end, I have worked on upgrading WordPress to the newer 2.9 release, and have just finished optimising my apache and mysql configurations. Access to my websites should now be somehow faster.
HADOPI II law adopted
Sep 26th
The HADOPI II law was finally adopted on September the 15th by the Assemblée Nationale. Guess what? My local representative, who wrote recently a very nice letter against this project, voted in favor of this law.
This is not a real surprise, as it has also happened with the HADOPI I law last May, but this time, I will take the time to write him a letter to express my feelings.
HADOPI I & II: letter from my local representative
Jul 25th
I have received an official letter from my local representative, in which he sums up the recent events in the area of the HADOPI law.
I will only quote the following parts of his letter, referring to the amendments proposed to this law, following to the partial censure of the Constitutional Council:
[...] ce qui me laisse plus que très dubitatif sur l’efficacité du dispositif. [...] cette procédure me semble tout à fait inadaptée.
Which can be translated as follows:
[...] I doubt this disposal will have any effect. [...] I think this procedure is absolutely not adapted.
Now, let’s bet what will be his vote in September!
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HADOPI law finally voted by my local representative
May 12th
As expected, the French HADOPI law was voted earlier today by the Assemblée Nationale.
As expected, my local representative voted in favour of this law.
I had however kept a secret hope that he would abstain for this vote, following to the email I have received from his assistant following to our meeting. Mr Vannson planned to take the floor during the finale discussions. He had sent me for review the text they wrote, which perfectly matched my arguments, and even referred to the law as a “Rube Goldberg machine” (“Ma conviction est que nous avons monté une usine à gaz” in the original version). This text also stated that he was netiher convinced nor satisfied by the law.
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HADOPI – meeting with my local representative
Apr 20th
Following to the email sent regarding the French law known as “HADOPI” (I blogged about it a few weeks ago), I had a meeting this afternoon with my local representative.
This half an hour meeting allowed me to explain my fears regarding this “firewall” which could be set up on French citizens’ computers to enable them to prove their non-culpability (provided their computer runs a popular proprietary OS).
On the essential role of translations in free software – GCompris in Portugal
Mar 10th
The recent problem of the Portuguese translation of GCompris shows how important a good translation is, especially as far as free software are concerned.
I have not been able to find any news in English relating this story, and think it is essential to spread it so that people better appreciate the role translators play in the free software development process.
The Portuguese Magalhães Project lead to provide 300,000 netbooks to Portuguese children aged of 6 to 10, for a fee varying from 0€ to 50€, depending on the earnings of the family. These netbooks have a dual boot, with Windows and Linux (a distribution based on Mandriva called “Caixa Mágica” – Magic Box in English).
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