From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264479AbTDXWmo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:42:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264482AbTDXWmo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:42:44 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:53002 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264479AbTDXWmn (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:42:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:54:20 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Alan Cox , Timothy Miller , Andreas Jellinghaus , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Message-ID: <20030424195420.S3557@almesberger.net> References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030424192941.E1425@almesberger.net> <20030424224155.GB31179@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030424224155.GB31179@mail.jlokier.co.uk>; from jamie@shareable.org on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:41:55PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > Change the rules against the status quo and they all complain, but it > is just change and they also all adapt to it. That is business too. In some cases, they show remarkable reluctance to embrace change, though. Just consider the enthusiastic response of RIAA, MPAA, etc. to how the Internet has improved everybody's ability to distribute information. Anyway, the question is then what the current trends are. As Linus has pointed out, there are desirable and there are undesirable uses of DRM. If endorsing DRM will just get us flooded with the undesirable ones, plus an insignificant number of the desirable ones, we'll have made a lousy deal. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/