From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262014AbTD2OHW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:07:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262015AbTD2OHW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:07:22 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:10234 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262014AbTD2OHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:07:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAE8A5F.8000408@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:21:19 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: Chris Adams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] References: <20030427183553.GA955879@hiwaay.net> <20030427185037.GA23581@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?