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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-27T19:08:04Z

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The open source community, in my opinion, is certainly a contributing
> factor in the emergence of the DMCA and DRM efforts. This community
> thinks it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything that they find useful.

Ugh, this sounds almost as bad as the press release of the MPAA's lawsuit
against DeCSS in 2000! That one stated that the goals of the Open Source
community are the illegal distribution of as much copyright-protected content
as possible...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds