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DATE | 2003-04-24 |
FROM | Ruben I Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Linus on DRM
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No
It's time to fork Linux and be done with Linux.
If you read Linus's message completely, he's completely miss focused and a very small aspect of the concept of DRM, which is the ue of the kernal with signatures. Then if you read the last part, it's clear that he understands that the use of non-visable keys (which is essential to DMCA protected DRM) is not allowed.
He then professes that politic is not part of Linux. He's wrong. Linux is a direct result of political realities at the time of Linuses work with the kernel. It would NOT BE POSSIBLE to do again under todays restrictive laws.
In addition, he side steps entirely the issue of the crippling affect that DRM has on the public which is choosing to use Linux for their real businesses and lives. And he hasn't givin a half second of thought of what DRM and the Copyright abuse has ment to the IT industry in general. The Reiser file system, for example, was funded by MP3.com. Yes that is the same company which was sued out of existence for a supposed copyright violation for 14 BILLION dollars.
If Linus gave it any analysis, he would see that DRM has cost his company millions of dollars and has been a collasal impediment to the universal adoption of GNU/Linux.
DRM is theft. There is NO WAY of doing it under current GPL licensing (see Tovalds last paragraph on private keys) and further it is not JUST a free software issue. Linus is working for Transmeta. Transmeta wants to put DRM into the code of their processors.
Ruben
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