From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262942AbTD1I4b (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:56:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263037AbTD1I4b (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:56:31 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:45108 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262942AbTD1I4a (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:56:30 -0400 To: Larry McVoy Cc: Ross Vandegrift , 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> <20030427220717.GA24991@willow.seitz.com> <20030427223255.GH23068@work.bitmover.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 28 Apr 2003 03:06:00 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20030427223255.GH23068@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 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 Larry McVoy writes: > > My message was that instead of sitting around copying other people's > programs, it would be far more interesting if the open source community > came up with original works on their own. That's how you win. It's a > lot more work but when you win, you really win. In the copying model, > you are always playing catchup to the leader. > > By the way, I wouldn't object to the copying so much if I didn't see it > as a threat to the open source community itself. I take the long view > which says that if you look far enough out, if the open source community > is successful enough, there won't be anything left to copy. I have to laugh because of a conversation I recently had with the Intel BIOS guys. I was describing some of the more important features of LinuxBIOS and they said: "Yeah we are working on that..." Copying goes both ways. Eric