On Wednesday 15 January 2003 22:05, you wrote:
> "[Transmeta] claims its approach offers increased security for wireless
> computing, protects sensitive data, "deters intellectual property
> theft" (read Digital Rights Management (DRM) Inside) and delivers
> tamper-resistant, x86 storage environments."
>
> http://212.100.234.54/content/3/28883.html
*** ALL *** hardware companies in the US have to move towards DRM since the
market in the US is that way. Our saviours in this case would be the far east
manufacturors who will give us DRM free machines at lower costs and who will
ultimately make a joke of the entire effort. Thank god for the east.
As for Linus: I do not consider a person who had the nerve to write an
operating system from scratch and license it under the GPL a traitor. A hero
hits much closer to home. Did you really think about youre saying ?!?
Licensing software under GPL and not charging for it (which are two separate
issues) is like giving a gift to the world . I have been using this gift from
Linus on my machines for almost a decade. This gift is also one which can not
be taken back - this means that Linus has no power over his users except
being a bright developer who is the right person to run the Linux kernel
project. If only the world had a 100 more traitors like him!!!
Cheers,
Mark.
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