Re: Microsoft and Fraunhofer using DRM to attack Open Source operating systems from piranna@gmail.com on 2013-09-18 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from September 2013)

From: <piranna@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:22:56 +0200
To: Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAKfGGh0cuAYNJN37wjX2gzN7xbNPYDfkgELa6BgEMpdVj3VZYg@mail.gmail.com>

> But at the same time one can also draw the conclusion from the
> "whitepaper" that Fraunhofer and Microsoft agree that DRM is
> incompatible with Open Source operating systems.
>
So I think, as I reported other times: a DRM mechanism can be easily
broken if not all the involved parts are closed, so they are
inherently incompatible with open source OSes or frameworks.


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"Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
Unix."
– Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux

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