DRM Hell

Posted by Sander_Marechal on May 12, 2009 10:56 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By David Lane
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In Burning the Ships, an open letter from then-20-year-old Bill Gates, written in 1976, is cited. In that letter, Gates says To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software. He is talking about computer software in what was then a burgeoning computer industry, run mainly as a hobby. He goes on to say that the prevailing assumption that hardware must be paid for but software is something to share is not a model for the successful creation of quality hardware. As the Open Source community has proven, his statements are not quite validated, but I am not opposed to developers making money for their code. At the beginning of this year, several people at Linux Journal and elsewhere, took a pledge to be DRM free.

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