Werner Almesberger wrote:
>Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Redhat's kernel is unlikely to get my signature. Possibly
>> at some point there will be a web of trust where that will work
>> but in the first approximation distributors kernels will not
>> load until I sign them.
>
>Yes, that's exactly the "good" kind of DRM.
Semantic quibbling:
Actually, no, I don't think it is. That's not DRM at all, good
or bad. It's just plain old signatures, web of trust, etc. Not
everything that uses crypto or code signing is DRM.
(We're really getting off-topic now, I suppose.)
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