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Gross overstatement
"In my experience those that believe in open source tend to believe in open everything. In their opinion no one should ever have any right to IP under any condition."

If that were true, why have a GPL at all? The GPL exists to do just what you say people involved with Linux are against, the protection of IP. It may be protected along different philosophical lines than you would promote, but it IS protected.

In my experience, people who are philosophically committed to OSS ussually have great interest in preserving IP and reqarding people. They just favor preserving IP for the people and not the company. They believe in compensating the Artist better than the promoter. They believe musicians should be able to control their music, programmers should be able to control their programs, and painters their paintings, etc. Just because they have little, if any,iterest in preserving the status quo, does not mean they intend to be crimminal.

The first half of your post was reasonable in how it debated the topic. The second half was ignorant garbage. Quit wasting my time!
Posted by: Mack DaNife   Posted on: 01/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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DRM Garbage  alricsca | 01/03/05
That seems to be a popular view with crooks.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/03/05
Oh, Ok..So If You Use Freevo  itanalyst | 01/03/05
A friend?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/03/05
Gross overstatement  Mack DaNife | 01/04/05
Your argument falls upon itself.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
Your point is debatable...  Mack DaNife | 01/04/05
Debate is good...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
A million friend is legal too  voska | 01/04/05
Sorry but no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
1 friend 100,000,000 friends  voska | 01/04/05
Awfully presumptuous.  Mack DaNife | 01/04/05
Windows only??  nomorems | 01/03/05
Too little, too late, too drm bad.  gordon@... | 01/03/05
Great post  Mack DaNife | 01/04/05
Huh? Looks like their sales are doing fine.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
I've heard thier sales dropping big time  voska | 01/04/05
TiVO is doomed  tic swayback | 01/04/05
Only if you're totally clueless.  gordon@... | 01/04/05
Don't trust these companies  tic swayback | 01/04/05
The problem in your argument.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
Only if it is thier property  voska | 01/04/05
STOP right there...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/05
Powers of Congress versus Powers of corporations  tic swayback | 01/04/05
No problem whatsoever in my argument (not mine, really)  tic swayback | 01/04/05

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