Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:53:45 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:51:58PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > 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.
I agree, what you did is fine, great in fact. Thanks.
> > 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"?
A very good point, you're right. And it's worse because I use "copying" to mean two different things depending on context.
To clarify: in general, when I'm talking about copying, what I mean depends on whether I'm talking about content or software programs. For content, copying means the act of generating a new copy of the content (copying mp3 files via Napster like services, for example). For programs, which is usually what I'm talking about, I mean the act of sitting down and trying to make a new program which does the same thing as the old program.
I think some people may think that I mean redistribution when I say copying and I almost never am talking about that. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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