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

Henrik Persson
2003-04-29T14:15:53Z

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:21:19 -0400
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> wrote:

> I have known a lot of incredibly creative people who have never shared
> their ideas with anyone because they feared others would steal their
> ideas and not give credit where it's due. Maybe you think they're crazy
>
> for thinking that way, but evidence abounds that that sort of thing
> happens all the time. It's very sad that so many brilliant ideas have
> never been shared with the world. What do the "information wants to be
> free" people have to say to those people who know they're going to be
> ripped off if they open their mouths?

Newton had a lot of rather unique ideas he never published.. But in his
time no one did own information. ;)

And to those people who are so terribly afraid of being "ripped-off" I can
only say that every poet, every programmer, every human being is a theif
in that sense. If they are afraid that other people will take their ideas
and make money of it - just put it under the GPL? ;)

Could you be a bit more elaborative when it comes to the term "ripped
off"?

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