Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:19:18 -0400 | From | rmoser <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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No need to get indignant. Just that these messages generally go:
<Message 1> You're copying things, you're breaking the law, you're going to be nailed <Message 2> Well what are we going to do about it? <Message 3> Stop! <Message 4> We can't we ahve to make this work with that. <Message 5> Do it some other way you're doing foo bar baz <Message 6> We are not foo! Define bar and wtf is baz? <Message 7> Bar is biz, baz is delta, your economic model is flawed, you can't think, you're stupid
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Or something like that. I mean it's ignorable for a while but God, like I can't find 10 contiguous messages from the past 2 days (I signed on on friday) that doesn't include this thread. The past few hours have it where it's trouble finding a group of 10 messages where less than 8 are this thread.
It's just getting excessive. I'm expecting to see
<Message 200> Shut up moron! <message 201> Hah! Call me a moron 2!$*head? You can't code worth balls! <Message 202> Can't code? I'll show you you ba@$!4%!
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some time soon
--Bluefox Icy
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On 4/27/2003 at 5:10 PM Larry McVoy wrote:
>Jeeze, buddy, sorry to waste your time. I'll go kill myself now. >Not. Get a life. If you don't like a thread, kill it. If you >don't like me, add me to your procmailrc. But since I've been >around working on Linux and stuff that predates Linux by about >10 years or so, maybe I'll just post whatever the heck I feel >like and if you don't like it, well, gosh, darn, I'm sooooo >sorry I've wasted your time, but I really could care less. >I certainly hope that's OK with you, but if not, oh, darn. > >On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:00:23PM -0400, rmoser wrote: >> Just some clarification, this thread is generating excessive traffic. >> Is this actually a useful topic, or are you just having a flamewar? >> If it's just a big argument, can you stop? Like, get your own list, >> put all the participants on it, and flame there. >> >> If it's relavent, then get to the point. >> >> --Bluefox Icy >> >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** >> >> On 4/27/2003 at 4:53 PM Larry McVoy wrote: >> >> >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/ >> >> >> >> - >> 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/ > >-- >--- >Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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