Issues
  

  • Management:
  • Economics:
    • Innovation, Jobs, International competition, Trade balance
  • Politics:
    • technological independance, research in development models
  • Defence:
    • Security of state and of local economy (bugs, trojan, spyware)
  • Culture:
    • Software controls "contents", education, creation, . . .
  • Sovereignty:
    • pervasiveness of software, constitutional principles and obligations

    • A state granted MONOPOLY is a PRIVILEGE . . . not a right

    • PUBLIC WELFARE <=> PRIVATE INTERESTS

    • Freedom <=> Right to forbid (by whom? how far? who controls?)

    Bernard Lang, INRIA - AFUL - ISOC France

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