Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

Posted May 4, 2011 20:57 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR) by bats999
Parent article: Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

> I'm confused about his separation of hardware and software.

Breaking news: software can be reproduced for free. Hardware cannot. That matters. So much than laws consider them very differently. Compare for instance a movie versus a DVD player.

Interview with Linus Torvalds (LinuxFR)

Posted May 4, 2011 22:40 UTC (Wed) by teknohog (guest, #70891) [Link]

> Breaking news: software can be reproduced for free. Hardware cannot. That matters. So much than laws consider them very differently. Compare for instance a movie versus a DVD player.

From what I've seen, copying a movie is a much bigger offense than stealing a DVD player. Therefore, hacking a device you own is not a big deal, since we all know that law is fair and logical ;)