DRM is not evil, just useless.

Posted Sep 23, 2006 11:46 UTC (Sat) by JakeG (guest, #40696)
In reply to: DRM is not evil, just useless. by JakeG
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

...and you know where that leads? Banning or guns.

Or technologies used to circumvent copyright. Essentially a GPLv3 Linux could be considered a tool that helps break the law, even if it's legal.

By the way, if you want to run your own code on your own hardware, they buy hardware that allows it. Fortunately there is still this so called free market economy we have. So vote with your feet.

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vote with more than your feet

Posted Sep 24, 2006 23:51 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Voting with your feet is not enough. Purchasing preference is not the only interaction we have in the free market, there is also participation. The options presented to us in the market are simply not granular enough for us to use preferences as a method of economically controlling the suppliers.

In 1983, when it was not possible to run a computer with only free software, instead of lobbying government or campaigning against proprietary software companies, Stallman participated in the free market by writing software and licensing it in a way that would give recipients some useful freedoms.

Back then, the problem was that software was being distributed as binary blobs. So GPLv2 said that distributing the source was required. Today, a new problem is rigging computers to require keys, so GPLv3 will say that if this is done, distributing a suitable key is required.