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

Michael Buesch
2003-04-28T15:42:24Z

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On Monday 28 April 2003 00:32, Larry McVoy wrote:
> If that's what you heard, I didn't get across what I meant. In the
> business world, it's a well established fact that you don't win by
> copying the leader, the leader will always out distance you.
>
> My message was that instead of sitting around copying other people's
> programs, it would be far more interesting if the open source community
> came up with original works on their own. That's how you win. It's a
> lot more work but when you win, you really win. In the copying model,
> you are always playing catchup to the leader.

Yea, but what about first copying _and then_, when it works stable,
improving it? In the end, we'll have the better product.
> That's how you win.
!

But I also don't share the opinion, that the leader will "win".
Have the original Unix-developers really won? I don't think so.
The real winners are todays Un*ces.

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Regards Michael Büsch
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