From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263900AbTEFPrd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 11:47:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263898AbTEFPrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 11:47:32 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:9604 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263900AbTEFPr0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 11:47:26 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030424192941.E1425@almesberger.net> <20030427142106.GA24244@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> <20030428112606.GB19139@lug-owl.de> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1052236797 11857 212.34.181.4 (6 May 2003 15:59:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:59:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw writes: >See, the open source (or free source) people are _not_ interested in >marketing. They're addicted towards technical evolution. By locking new Overgeneralization and wrong assumption. Lots of open source people care tons about marketing. Ask e.g. RedHat or SuSE. Or many of the smaller companies that do open source work. We all have to eat sometimes. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire