From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261169AbTD1PmY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261184AbTD1PmY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:42:24 -0400 Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.59]:25351 "HELO smtp015.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261169AbTD1PmX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:42:23 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:55:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030427220717.GA24991@willow.seitz.com> <20030427223255.GH23068@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20030427223255.GH23068@work.bitmover.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304281645.39025.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 April 2003 00:32, Larry McVoy wrote: > If that's what you heard, I didn't get across what I meant. In the > business world, it's a well established fact that you don't win by > copying the leader, the leader will always out distance you. > > My message was that instead of sitting around copying other people's > programs, it would be far more interesting if the open source community > came up with original works on their own. That's how you win. It's a > lot more work but when you win, you really win. In the copying model, > you are always playing catchup to the leader. Yea, but what about first copying _and then_, when it works stable, improving it? In the end, we'll have the better product. > That's how you win. ! But I also don't share the opinion, that the leader will "win". Have the original Unix-developers really won? I don't think so. The real winners are todays Un*ces. - -- Regards Michael Büsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 16:40:07 up 53 min, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.03, 0.95 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+rUDroxoigfggmSgRAohpAJ9v0b7PM7O31FE/GFoYrPwPKQ/6PwCfWYq6 2kHhcejAO4CsJNtfibYVc8I= =GPkc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----