{"id":631,"date":"2006-02-04T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2006-02-07T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T15:04:21","slug":"torvalds-the-pragmatic-hold-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Torvalds The Pragmatic Holds Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one I wanted to get back to reading, C|Net&#8217;s article &#8220;Torvalds says DRM isn&#8217;t necessarily bad&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Torvalds+says+DRM+isnt+necessarily+bad\/2100-7344_3-6034964.html?tag=nefd.top\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). Wow. Talk about a slap in the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s face. Stallman and his followers must be wondering what hit them. First, Lessig the copyleft messiah is out there saying Free doesn&#8217;t always work. Now this.<\/p>\n<p>The article is short, full of quotes from behind-the-scenes emails and then this last comment that crystallizes one of my big arguments against the &#8220;right to piracy\/ain&#8217;t gonna pay for it&#8221; attitude that&#8217;s so prevalent out there: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Torvalds said. &#8220;DRM is the smallest part of it. The crap we see and hear every day (regardless of any protection) is a much bigger issue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to repeat that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The crap we see and hear every day (regardless of any protection) is a much bigger issue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chew on that for awhile. And when some of you <em>crusaders<\/em> figure it out, maybe I&#8217;ll see you at a local club listening to some struggling, unsupported band; giving them <strong>both<\/strong> my <em>attention<\/em> and my <em>money<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one I wanted to get back to reading, C|Net&#8217;s article &#8220;Torvalds says DRM isn&#8217;t necessarily bad&#8221; (Link). Wow. Talk about a slap in the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s face. Stallman and his followers must be wondering what hit them. First, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}