[Gllug] Re: Anti-DRM event in Central London tomorrow!

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:51:57PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> In particular one of the things society _ought_ to say is that if
> people want the legal right to restrict distribution of their works
> they cannot also employ technological restrictions.

And they should publish the bloody source too.  Why it is that
Microsoft[1] can publish a binary MSWORD.EXE and claim copyright on
it, when in fact what they should be publishing is the readable source
code?  After all, in 50^W70^W99^W1000 years when it finally comes out
of copyright, the binary won't even run on anything, but the source
could be read like a book.

Rich.

[1] To use everyone's favourite whipping-boy as an example, but
it's not just them.

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