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

Måns Rullgård
2003-04-28T08:55:36Z

rmoser <mlmoser@comcast.net> writes:

> >Nowdays very few programs show any genuinely new ideas. For the
> >greater part, they are new implementations of very old concepts. Take
> >Microsoft. They produce operating systems and word processors. They
> >were not by far the first to do either of these. Actually, I can't
> >think of anything where MS has come up with something really new. The
> >idea of using a display (possibly graphical) with multiple windows was
> >at one time such a new thing.
>
> wtf? Wasn't that W? (the W windowing system)

Read carefully again. I did *not* say that MS invented window
systems, quite the contrary. What I said, was that the invention,
whenever it took place and whoever the inventor, was, at that time, a
new thing. All later window systems are, in Larry's sense, copies of
the first one.

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