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French vs Microsoft (round 2)
* MICROSOFT CORP said late Tuesday that proposals from French
parliamentarians to require software companies to reveal their
programmes' secret codes could threaten intellectual property
rights. A proposed law aims to force firms like Microsoft to
reveal the closely-guarded "source codes" that form the nuts and
bolts of their programmes when they sell them to state
institutions, allowing their users increased scope to modify them.
(Reuters 07:00 PM ET 04/25/2000) For the full text story, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566001323-f25