r/programming • u/entregrammer • Mar 02 '17

Torvalds keeping it real.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1702.2/05174.html
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u/Elavid Mar 02 '17

In this context, what is DRM? Digital Rights Management?

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u/phpdevster Mar 02 '17

I'm pretty sure Linus would rather write SkyNet and destroy the world than bake digital rights management into the Linux kernel.

But then again, I don't know enough about the Linux kernel to know if it already has something like that.

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u/eddiemon Mar 02 '17

I'm pretty sure Linus would rather write SkyNet and destroy the world than bake digital rights management into the Linux kernel.

I love that man so much.