Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3

Joe Barr writes "Linus Torvalds explains in three recent posts why he doesn't care for the DRM restrictions in GPLv3, and he has never been one to hold back. From his commentary: 'I _literally_ feel that we do not - as software developers - have the moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better.' NewsForge has the complete text of all three posts available." We discussed his initial reaction to GPL3 at the end of last month. NewsForge is a sister site to Slashdot.

Comments

Re:Digital Rapacity Management

[Zwets]

...and RMS and company worship a vengeful god, who will rain fiery death on the evil proprietary DRMed software.

:-p

Re:Translation

[ovit]

Translation: "I feel that we do not have the muscle - as open source software developers - to force hardware manufactures to bow to our DRM demands. They'll just laugh at us."

Translation: "I'm a dumbfuck who puts words in peoples mouths."

    td

Re:The real question

[Lussarn]

whatertight hole... Need some sleep...

However, what's the question here?

[Nicopa]

Martin Fink tells it like it is:

The question is not why you should migrate to GNU GPL v3, but why not?

Re:DRM is the antithesis of openness

[xtracto]

In order for the market to work and content to move into the digital age and away from physical media, there has to be DRM.

I agree with you completely. I do not understand people that are totally anti-Rights-management. The problem is the way companies are using the DRM tool as a lot of them see it as a way to squeeze more profit from their customers.

But you have to see DRM with a broader view, it is about the management of rights in information, as the world continues to depend more on digital information there is an inherent *need* in controlling who can an who can not access that information. It is not only about music and movies. It is about documents and all other kind of digitally representable data.

The people that rant about the right management technology usually has no idea how to control information, I am totally against the way CORPOPRATIONS are using DRM technology (I was the first to compile a list of Sony Rootkit CD's when it started) but seriously, the technology is not bad, it is corporations abusing it to get more power.

DRM in linux

[nazsco]

torvalds is already implementing DRM in the core of the linux kernel.

it will prevent you using non GPL modules, prevent you from running non GPL program and finally prevent you from listening to non-GPL bands.