Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!]

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-30T16:13:13Z

Larry McVoy wrote:

.> Your answer has to be interesting because it seems to me that they are
.> doing it to protect their products, their product is sometimes content,
.> sometimes programs, sometimes both. An answer which says that open source
.> is not part of the cause also says that open source is irrelevant.

You are trying to make the case that open source developers are in the
same group as those who illegally download copyrighted media, but you
are wrong. Taking ideas and concepts from the "daemon book" or "The
Design of OS/2" or whatever and putting them in Linux is not a crime,
nor is buying a program and trying to clone its functionality. Copying
the source or object code is something entirely different.

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