As has been widely reported on the interweb, the Fench Department of Culture is apparently trying to ban the publication of Free/Open Source (and presumably, open source) software source code, and I'm rather baffled. If they had decided to ban all foreign books, for example, I'd at least understand the rationale; I wouldn't agree with it, but I can atleast comprehend how foreign books can affect culture. But source code? Programming languages are a highly constrained form of expression, barely capable of conveying complex ideas, muich less ones of any cultural significance. Hell, I'd say software (in executable form) has much more impact on culture than code, but they don't seem to take issue with that... Baffling. Absolutely baffling.
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