Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air'

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @03:32AM from the where-there-is-smoke dept.

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.'"

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Re:fine line between "moderate" and "apolitical" by Undertaker43017 · 2007-01-16 04:15 · Score: -1, Redundant

Selling DRM'd products is robbing no one. The person that produced the work is simply trying to protect their rights, and their rights include how they let you "consume" their creation. Your right is to choose to buy their product or not, if you don't like the restrictions they put on their product, DON'T BUY IT!!!

If you want to inform consumers about the restrictions of DRM'd products, knock yourself out, but you don't have a right to restrict people from selling DRM'd products.