From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263507AbTD1L0m (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:26:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263510AbTD1L0m (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:26:42 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:12300 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263507AbTD1L0k (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:26:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:38:55 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Message-ID: <20030428113855.GC19139@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030427183553.GA955879@hiwaay.net> <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DYCP9ZX4RRtQiwKl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --DYCP9ZX4RRtQiwKl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-27 11:50:37 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote in message <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com>: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >=20 > 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 --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA)); --DYCP9ZX4RRtQiwKl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+rRLPHb1edYOZ4bsRAuV8AJ4oYeSN4uoJip47O7xESKS62lVEqACeLXnD qfxLzOMqYTTkNknjngnUFKc= =9vNr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DYCP9ZX4RRtQiwKl--