From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751326AbWBBARe (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:17:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751404AbWBBARe (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:17:34 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46289 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbWBBARd (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:17:33 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Karim Yaghmour , Filip Brcic , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <43DE57C4.5010707@opersys.com> <5d6222a80601301143q3b527effq526482837e04ee5a@mail.gmail.com> <200601302301.04582.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> <43E0E282.1000908@opersys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:18:22 +0000 Message-Id: <1138839503.5557.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2006-02-01 at 14:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I realize that programmers are bad at content creation. So many > programmers feel that they can't fight DRM that way. Tough. Spread the > word instead. Don't try to fight DRM the wrong way. Programmers tend to be interested in economics for some strange reason. So read the analyses on DRM. Then stop worrying about the content companies because they are the losers to the computer industry on this..