From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261570AbTD0TIE (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261605AbTD0TIE (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:08:04 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:23176 "EHLO mail.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261570AbTD0TID (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:08:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:20:02 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Larry McVoy cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] In-Reply-To: <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > The open source community, in my opinion, is certainly a contributing > factor in the emergence of the DMCA and DRM efforts. This community > thinks it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything that they find useful. Ugh, this sounds almost as bad as the press release of the MPAA's lawsuit against DeCSS in 2000! That one stated that the goals of the Open Source community are the illegal distribution of as much copyright-protected content as possible... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds