From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262017AbTD2OPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262020AbTD2OPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:15:53 -0400 Received: from h214n1fls32o988.telia.com ([62.20.176.214]:30990 "EHLO sirius.nix.badanka.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262017AbTD2OPt (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:15:49 -0400 Message-Id: <200304291427.h3TERpZq031934@sirius.nix.badanka.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:27:51 +0200 From: Henrik Persson To: Timothy Miller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] In-Reply-To: <3EAE8A5F.8000408@techsource.com> References: <20030427183553.GA955879@hiwaay.net> <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com> <3EAE8A5F.8000408@techsource.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:21:19 -0400 Timothy Miller wrote: > I have known a lot of incredibly creative people who have never shared > their ideas with anyone because they feared others would steal their > ideas and not give credit where it's due. Maybe you think they're crazy > > for thinking that way, but evidence abounds that that sort of thing > happens all the time. It's very sad that so many brilliant ideas have > never been shared with the world. What do the "information wants to be > free" people have to say to those people who know they're going to be > ripped off if they open their mouths? Newton had a lot of rather unique ideas he never published.. But in his time no one did own information. ;) And to those people who are so terribly afraid of being "ripped-off" I can only say that every poet, every programmer, every human being is a theif in that sense. If they are afraid that other people will take their ideas and make money of it - just put it under the GPL? ;) Could you be a bit more elaborative when it comes to the term "ripped off"? -- Henrik Persson nix@socialism.nu http://nix.badanka.com PGP-key: http://nix.badanka.com/pgp PGP-KeyID: 0x43B68116