Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air'

An anonymous reader writes "In Sydney this week for the annual Linux conference, Linus Torvalds has described DRM and the GPL as 'hot air' and 'no big deal'. From the interview: 'I suspect — and I may not be right — but when it comes to things like DRM or licensing, people get really very excited about them. People have very strong opinions. I have very strong opinions and they happen to be for different reasons than many other people. It ends up in a situation where people really like to argue — and that very much includes me... I expect this to raise a lot of bad blood but at the same time, at the end of the day, I don't think it really matters that much.'"

Comments

Re:fine line between "moderate" and "apolitical"

[Anonymous Coward]

yup, the two are worlds apart. See, whilst sweatshop labour is something bad that happens to other people in smelly countries, I want Christina, and I want her Now. Right Now. me me me. See the difference? :-)

Re:Shows it...

[kfg]

Boy, it sure would be great to be smarter than the guy who wrote Linux, wouldn't it?

It has its pros and cons.

KFG

Re:Where?

[SuperStretchy]

Buy?

Re:fine line between "moderate" and "apolitical"

[somersault]

Presumably English isn't your first language, because while "you've" would indeed be a contraction for "you have", in actual spoken English it just wouldn't work in that sentence.

Interestingly (or maybe not ;) ), I read that as 'culture of entertainment', rather than entitlement. Entertainment made a bit more sense to me, since I'm currently on a caffeine hangover.