Messages in this thread | | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! | Date | 27 Apr 2003 01:59:02 GMT |
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Werner Almesberger wrote: >Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Redhat's kernel is unlikely to get my signature. Possibly >> at some point there will be a web of trust where that will work >> but in the first approximation distributors kernels will not >> load until I sign them. > >Yes, that's exactly the "good" kind of DRM.
Semantic quibbling:
Actually, no, I don't think it is. That's not DRM at all, good or bad. It's just plain old signatures, web of trust, etc. Not everything that uses crypto or code signing is DRM.
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