From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261506AbTEAR1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261515AbTEAR1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:27:55 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:32016 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261506AbTEAR1v (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:27:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 19:40:13 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Message-ID: <20030501174013.GA27494@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A9202032941@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> <20030430152041.GA22038@work.bitmover.com> <16048.20899.694659.419853@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org> <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-04-30 18:03:17 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote in message <20030501010317.GB8676@work.bitmover.com>: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:43:47AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Larry McVoy writes: > And as much as I dislike Microsoft, I'd argue that the middleware layer > that they provide which makes all the windows apps work together is=20 > maybe even a bigger deal than the web. Unix has been trying to build > something like that for decades and never has. Neither Gnome nor KDE=20 > matches what they have, not a chance. And the reason is that that=20 Now, after using Linux (and some other Un*xes as well:) I wouldn't compare Windows to Gnome or KDE. I'd better compare Windows to sh, awk, sed, ... The best thing ever seems to be '|', '&&' and '||' :-) > layer is the computing version of ditch digging, it's not sexy, it's > not math, it's just a pile of grunt work, a huge pile. And Microsoft Nothing sexy there, but some simple sh scripts are damn neat to that:) MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA)); --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sVv8Hb1edYOZ4bsRAmMGAKCMYjJwaxClu+WAjNxvFAVGQO7oJwCfU3cI 3DLG+RNjqixXbLZ1lDUjwuw= =klCE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--