| Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:50:13 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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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. >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. > Reminds me of Microsoft.
> >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. > Reminds me of Stallman.
> > >
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