Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:34:07 +0200 |
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On Sunday 27 April 2003 18:59, Larry McVoy wrote: > The open source community, in my opinion, is certainly a contributing > factor in the emergence of the DMCA and DRM efforts. This community > thinks it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything that they find useful.
Oh no. My opinion points exactly 180 degrees to the other side. You can't say: "The whole community is evil" if only a few people are. And IMHO that are only a _few_ people. I think most people of the opensource community know exactly about copyrights and so on and don't violate them.
> Take a look at some of the recent BK flamewars and over and over you > will see people saying "we'll clone it". That's not unique to BK, > it's the same with anything else which is viewed as useful. And nobody > sees anything wrong with that, or copying music, whatever. "If it's > useful, take it" is the attitude.
But: They don't illegaly steal bk. They make their own software for which _they_ own the copyright. I think it is their good right to do so.
> Corporations are certainly watching things like our efforts with > BitKeeper, as well as the other companies who are trying to play nice > with the open source world. What are they learning? That if you don't > lock it up, the open source world has no conscience, no respect, and will > steal anything that isn't locked down. Show me a single example of the > community going "no, we can't take that, someone else did all the work > to produce it, we didn't". Good luck finding it. Instead you get "hey, > that's cool, let's copy it". With no acknowledgement that the creation > of the product took 100x the effort it takes to copy the product.
I see no problem here. But in the future software patents will prevent it :P
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