“DRM The F(L)OSS community opposition to DRM is widespread and
firm. This comes from the fact, that the digital rights management
technology is actually used to digitally manage restrictions.
That’s why this post to LKML by Linus Torvalds started quite
a storm :“(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/110368) I want to
make it clear that DRM is perfectly ok with Linux!(…)
“And like the software patent issue, I also don’t
necessarily like DRM myself, but I still ended up feeling the same:
I’m an “Oppenheimer”, and I refuse to play
politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you
want to – which very much includes things I don’t necessarily
personally approve of.”
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