> And I'm sure the proposal for "Linux DRM" will go down well in the
FLOSS
> community, as well as a lead balloon anyway. I can see the slashdot
> headline already: "BBC proposing DRM for Linux"
Well there are pretty obvious divisions in the community. A lot of
people have recently gone on the record as saying that the platform
needs DRM to survive, others are vehamontly opposed to it on idiological
groups. Linus has of course, said his thing.
However as no one is really producing DRM'd content on a large scale
(that I'm aware of) it's very hard to know what the balance of views is.
It's actually going to need someone to start doing it, before we see how
the community reacts in practise. Seeing it in use will be, IMHO, a far
more interesting test!
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