Apple Computer Inc. said on Friday it was awaiting final approval of a French bill aimed at opening online media stores to rivals, which it hoped would leave the market to decide which systems prevailed.
“We are awaiting the final result of France’s legislative process,” Apple spokesman Alan Hely said in an emailed statement. “(We) hope they let the …. marketplace … decide which music players and online music stores are offered to consumers.”
A committee of both houses of the French parliament on Thursday approved a compromise proposal that would set limits on an original draft bill to open up online content businesses.
Apple had called that draft “state sponsored piracy” and there were even suggestions it might pull its market-leading iTunes operation out of France if the bill was passed.
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