From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264695AbTD0Rr6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:47:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264698AbTD0Rr6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:47:58 -0400 Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.113]:38667 "HELO smtp016.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264695AbTD0Rr4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:47:56 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=20Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:59:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304271959.53110.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 April 2003 19:35, Måns Rullgård wrote: > when writing your own. Sure, it might not take the same effort to > create a program similar to an already existing one, as to think of > totally new, great idea for how to do something. With your reasoning, > all version control programs are stolen from the first one, whatever > that was (does anyone remember?). That's exactly the way evolution works. Examples? Take apes and make humans out of them... :) Linux ist "stolen" from Unix. Without "stealing", no evolution and no progress. - -- Regards Michael Büsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 19:55:03 up 8:02, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+rBqZoxoigfggmSgRArtGAJ9HOMRjb06wlc9n2drd2tj7kL9cjACdEXDM c9vm/qj/mYhb1Suv1XVgR+8= =SwD9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----