Memo To Anti-DRM Crowd: It's Time For New Solutions | Linux Today

Memo To Anti-DRM Crowd: It’s Time For New Solutions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 17, 2007

“Africa’s first astronaut and open source supporter Mark
Shuttleworth, the man with the money behind Ubuntu Linux, has added
his voice to the growing choir of senior executives calling for the
end of digital rights management.

“It is a good piece and worth the read, even if there is not
much new.

“Mark Shuttleworth is a can-do, solutions oriented kind of guy.
I greatly admire what he is doing (making Linux, formerly The OS
Only A Geek Could Truly Love, into The OS that You Can Love if You
Hate Windows But Can’t Stomach OS X)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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