From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261323AbTD0Soa (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:44:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261404AbTD0Soa (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:44:30 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:4626 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261323AbTD0So2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:44:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:56:39 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Message-ID: <20030427155639.B16041@almesberger.net> References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030424192941.E1425@almesberger.net> <20030427142106.GA24244@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:59:59AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > What seems to be forgotten is that the people who are locking things up > are the people who own those things Ownership is a cultural concept and the understanding of who owns what, and what they're allowed to do with it, vary widely. If I was your theocrat, and I decreed that any software written in my theocracy belongs to the church (e.g. because all the works of man belong to whatever deity or deities this theocracy believes in), would you be pleased with this ? (If not, I'll have you burnt for heresy, so you're better smiling when handing over your work :-) > But Garloff just shrugged it off as not his problem. On the other hand, I'm sure you'll be eager to comply with any orders he may have for your employees. > The more you push back the more locked up things will become. Yes, Larry, so give up the futile struggle, and open source BK :-) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/