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

Mirar
2003-04-27T17:37:35Z

> With your reasoning, all version control programs are stolen from
> the first one, whatever that was (does anyone remember?).

It's bound to be something related to RCS (which CVS was built on).

> The idea of using a display (possibly graphical) with multiple
> windows was at one time such a new thing. This does not mean that
> any subsequent implementation of such a system is copied, or stolen,
> from the original inventor (who was that?).

Xerox. (Yes, same X as in X11, if I understand correctly.)
I think they gave the idea away freely to Apple.

/Mirar