From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262687AbTDZS2y (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:28:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262872AbTDZS2y (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:28:54 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:8392 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262687AbTDZS2x (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:28:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:41:06 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Message-ID: <20030426184106.GN10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030424201522.G1425@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:22:50PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We've seen this before. Remember when dongles were plentiful in the > software world? People literally had problems with having dongles on top > of dongles to run a few programs. They all died out, simply because > consumers _hate_ that kind of lock-in thing. Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds - ask any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll hear a _lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies and breakage. > _designed_ ot be flexible - that's what makes the PC's. DRM on a PC is > a totally braindead idea, and I _hope_ Microsoft goes down that path > because it will kill them in the end. Wolfram Research is still alive. Remember Mathematica?