Dear Mr Arrington,
I just read the following blog post on Techcrunch : Breaking: French Government Still Can’t Get France.fr live
Even though you have a point about france.fr being down for days right after its launch, you did not need a blog post on Techcrunch for that, there is a simple word to explain this failure : incompetence.
What is absolutely pointless in your article is this :
If the country’s experience with building aircraft carriers
is any indication of their ability to build websites, we should see it limping along sometime in 2013.
Let’s skip the aircraft carriers thingy because it is absolutely out of topic here.
French people not able to do websites ? Do people behind Dailymotion, Netvibes, Skyblog, Seesmic, Deezer come from Mars ? You can love or hate the service but you can not say that french people can not make websites.
By the way, showing the list of wars France lost is also useless, unless you want to talk about Vietnam and Irak 
If ever someone read this blog post and uses the WW2 argument, I would recommend this person to read a history book first so he can understand why the USA entered into the conflict. Reading a bit on Lafayette is recommended as well.
So please Mr Arrington, do what you do well i.e publishing news about tech and the Internet in general and stop the rest.
Best Regards,
PS : if ever this website goes down after a while due to the incoming traffic this is because it is hosted on a cheap shored host I do not quite care about not because it is French.
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