Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:55:54 -0500 | From | Jeff Randall <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:20:41AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > My point wasn't about theft, it was about reimplementation. > I stand behind that point, what I've seen for more than a decade is > reimplementation after reimplementation. I'm not saying there is no > value to that or that it is illegal or that there are no improvements > (compare Unix diff to GNU diff if you want to see some imrovements). > There is tons of value in having free versions of useful tools. > There is also tons of value in the creation of new work. > > What I haven't seen is a lot of revolutionary work. All of that seems > to come from commercial companies and at a pretty slow pace. There are > a lot of false starts, commercial failures, whatever. But a few slam > dunks as well.
Mosaic was pretty revolutionary for it's time.. as was Sendmail.. source was available for both from the start.
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