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

Michael Buesch
2003-04-27T17:47:58Z

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sunday 27 April 2003 19:35, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> when writing your own. Sure, it might not take the same effort to
> create a program similar to an already existing one, as to think of
> totally new, great idea for how to do something. With your reasoning,
> all version control programs are stolen from the first one, whatever
> that was (does anyone remember?).

That's exactly the way evolution works.
Examples?
Take apes and make humans out of them... :)
Linux ist "stolen" from Unix.

Without "stealing", no evolution and no progress.

- --
Regards Michael Büsch
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
19:55:03 up 8:02, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+rBqZoxoigfggmSgRArtGAJ9HOMRjb06wlc9n2drd2tj7kL9cjACdEXDM
c9vm/qj/mYhb1Suv1XVgR+8=
=SwD9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----