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.'"

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

[Pink Tinkletini]

If the fucktard to whom I was responding can get away with equating being forced to work in a sweatshop for lack of other options (else starve or get beaten to death) and being forced to buy into DRM for lack of other options (else miss out on the ability to watch Planet of the Apes on demand), then certainly I can conflate two situations where death is the ultimate end. Nice implicit defense of said fucktard, though, fucktard.