On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
> I suppose one plausible closed-source use someone might make of PPI is that
> once record-loading is included in PPI, a closed-source developer might make
> a DRM module for Plucker.
That won't happen, since record-loading won't be included in the
module support. Why would there be a need for such a feature? To
read DOC documents? You can already do that using different DOC
readers (released under GPL).
> Whether this is a bad thing depends what one thinks of DRM.
It's a bad thing. Why would we write Free Software just to allow
someone to lock in the users by adding a tiny module?
> (Current Plucker DRM is,
There is no DRM in Plucker. The owner ID protection is not the same
thing as share-denial.
/Mike
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