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

Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-04-28T11:26:42Z

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On Sun, 2003-04-27 11:50:37 -0700, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
wrote in message <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>
> If you want to win, you win by being a creator, not a copier. That's the
> point. In my opinion, chasing the leader and copying them is a losing

That's half of it. Creating something oftenly goes along with copying
parts of other things. Without the idea of version control (which you
for sure didn't invent) BK wouldn't be there. Distributed repositories
aren't that new, too. For example, I'm using rsync'ed CVS repositories
since quite some time...

So creating and copying are quite connected to each other...

MfG, JBG

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ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA));

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