From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261899AbTD0Wjq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:39:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261903AbTD0Wjq (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:39:46 -0400 Received: from sphinx.mythic-beasts.com ([195.82.107.246]:6928 "EHLO sphinx.mythic-beasts.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261899AbTD0Wjp (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:39:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:51:58 +0100 (BST) From: Matthew Kirkwood X-X-Sender: To: Larry McVoy cc: Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] In-Reply-To: <20030427185037.GA23581@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: Please excuse the aggressive trimming, but I don't think I'm affecting the intent of your works. > 1) Corporations are threatened when people copy their content and/or > products. I think that the word "copy" may be a significant cause of artificial disagreement here. I, for one, find it just as misleading as "free" (is it as-in-beer or as-in-speech?). Larry -- would you be willing, in future postings of this nature, to distinguish "duplicate" and "reimplement"? (Perhaps someone else will find better, more obviously different, words, but that's the best I can do today.) If you did this, at least the discussions about whether you refer to copyright or patents would disappear. Matthew.