Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:41:06 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:22:50PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We've seen this before. Remember when dongles were plentiful in the > software world? People literally had problems with having dongles on top > of dongles to run a few programs. They all died out, simply because > consumers _hate_ that kind of lock-in thing.
Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds - ask any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll hear a _lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies and breakage. > _designed_ ot be flexible - that's what makes the PC's. DRM on a PC is > a totally braindead idea, and I _hope_ Microsoft goes down that path > because it will kill them in the end. Wolfram Research is still alive. Remember Mathematica? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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