France Versus Le Pomme

Not content with taking on Google, France wants to get the EU to take on Apple as well.

France is pushing the European Union to break the dominance of Apple's iPod by forcing the company to allow songs downloaded from iTunes to be used on rival players.

Bearing in mind what happened to another proprietary Apple system when faced with an open standard, it might be in Apple’s long term interest. I fail to see however that this is an issue for our lords and masters to decide for us.