From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263073AbTDYBWp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:22:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263080AbTDYBWp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:22:45 -0400 Received: from mail1.dac.neu.edu ([129.10.1.75]:5138 "EHLO mail1.dac.neu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263073AbTDYBWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:22:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA890D0.6080707@ccs.neu.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:35:12 -0400 From: Stan Bubrouski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! References: <20030424051510.GK8931@holomorphy.com> <20030424061500.GN8978@holomorphy.com> <20030424074400.GD28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030424080326.GH19139@lug-owl.de> <20030425011618.GA7781@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030425011618.GA7781@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Harkes wrote: > Are companies required to provide me (as legal owner) of a new copy/CD > when my harddrive breaks, as the new harddrive will probably change the > 'trusted' signature of my 'legal playback device'. What if I buy a new > computer/player, and all my licensed applications have to be resigned? > Yeah seriously...there are so many issues with DRM that are not clear cut and have yet to be worked out properly. Competing ideas with completely different strategies does not bode well with me. As a consumer the idea is absurd until something stable, legal, AND FAIR is implemented. Until then I don't even want to see this issue again on this list because it is moot. How many DRM prodcts support Linux or even plan to...yeah...most of them are win32 and have no plans for even Macs nevermind Linux... -Stan > Jan