Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2006 23:54 UTC, submitted by sean batten
"Linus Torvalds doesn't want to change the Linux kernel's software license, and he said so again last week. For good measure this time, he threw in some inflammatory remarks. "I literally feel," wrote Torvalds, "that we do not, as software developers, have the moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God." Since the crusades were a foreign adventure responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, that's not the most diplomatic response, and FSF counsel Eben Moglen refused to be drawn into retaliation when we contacted him for comment."
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RE: I disagree with Linus
by baad_to_The_bone on Wed 8th Feb 2006 17:59
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Hey! I invoke Goodwin's law on that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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Everyone's entitled to their opinions, specially Linus whom with I often agree on many issues as he's a pragmatic technical thinker. But not this time, the position he's taking regarding DRM, can be assimilated to the position most western countries took when Germany began anexioning territories, "It's not our problem nor our obligation" until it was too late. Of course software developers are not hardware ones and should not take position whenever possible with hardware decisions whenever we're not affected by those decisions. DRM is such a technology that will affect us all, it's not a technology made to protect anyone's rights, but to control legit users (a pirate wouldn't be affected 'cos his files will be undrmed) and as software developers, our activity could be controlled and difficulted that way. Recently, microsoft showed his plans to erradicate hobbyists from their consoles and how it's drm licensing was specifically designed to keep them and small developers out of field. If LT thinks linux won't be affected he's simply, and plainly nuts.