The Open Source Champions try to "Help"
While everyone throws roses at Sun and Redhat - for being "champions of Open Source" - not too many people are paying attention to what they are also funding - an expansion of the DMCA that would have made circumvention of Sony's rootkit DRM a felony. Thanks a lot guys - I'd rather you had obnoxious EULA's and stayed the heck away from the really anti-competitive stuff. Maybe someone could ask Jonathan Schwartz about this, for instance. His passion for open source in Brazil is nice, but it would be a lot more helpful if he stopped making the world worse.
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Sun hates the DMCA
[noname] April 23, 2006 22:44:03.296
Trust me, Sun is no fan of the DMCA - but they're also worried about IP holders trying to tie up internet deployments with DRM that costs $10/device. That's why Sun's involved, not because they're a fan of the DMCA, or of DRM. They just don't want anyone else to destory the market with something proprietary.
Trust No Name
[anonymous] April 24, 2006 7:07:48.381
Someone who won't leave their name begins their post "Trust me." Who are you?