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> Shouldn't they be removed altogether? Preveting copy is encouraging DRM.
> DRM should be flushed down the toilets.
Absolutely not, you miss the point. Preventing copy is ensuring
proper use and protecting copyright of the document creator/holder.
> Free software is about sharing knowledge and encouraging copy, IMHO quite
> far from restricting or preventing copy.
Free Software is about sharing of ideas and improving technology.
Nowhere in the licenses does it state anything about encouraging copying at
all. It allows it, it certainly doesn't "promote" it. It grants you the
right to make copies, as long as the license and the copyright to the code
at hand, is adhered to.
That being said, if I have company-specific documents on my PDA, or
project documents, or something that I don't want to beam to other people, I
will crypt it with an owner_id, so that it cannot be easily used on any
other device than my own. This has nothing at all to do with sharing, or
copying, it has to do with protecting intellectual property or copyrighted
materials.
If what you say about copying and DRM were true, no Free Software
systems would be firewalled, because why would you want to block anything,
it's about sharing and copying, right? Why restrict anyone from just being
able to log into your system and download whatever they want. Why have
passwords even.
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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