Re: [SLUG] Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the Linux kernel!?!

From: VT (vt1@gte.net)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 00:18:33 EDT


At 01:08 AM 8/14/2003 -0400, robin@roblimo.com wrote:

>>>But if we can have Open Source
>>>software that allows us to read DRM'd content, we're simply following a
>>>time-honored Open Source tradition.
>
>Okay, let's pretend we're Hank Williams, Jr, whip out our gee-tars, and
>sing along with feeling:
>
>Linus, tell me now,
>Why do you code?
>Why... give it away?
>Why do you re-ject all the
>Patches I wrote?
>
>Do you have to do
>That DRM dance?
>Are they making you
>Kowtow to their stance?
>
>I gotta say,
>It's against my religion
>What I put on my puter's hard drive
>Is my.. personal decision
>So If I get drunk
>And download all night long,
>It's an... open source tradition!
>
>-- lyrics copyleft 2003 by Robin 'Roblimo' Miller

Careful, you'll have people get you confused with John Perry Barlow.

VT

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