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  • Samba author: GPLv3 has further to go

    The creator of the Samba project says GPLv3 could have gone further in its anti-DRM provisions.

  • FSF plans campaign against DRM

    The Free Software Foundation is planning to launch a large-scale campaign against digital rights management later this year.

  • DRM, GPLv3 just 'hot air': Linus Torvalds

    Digital rights management (DRM) and the General Public License (GPL) cause a lot of 'hot air' to be exchanged but they are not a 'big deal', according to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

  • Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad

    Provisions against digital rights management in a draft update to the General Public Licence could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said this week in e-mails reflecting the Linux leader's pragmatic philosophy.

  • DRM key to Linux's consumer success?

    A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copyright protection technologies.

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  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • Battle brews over unlocking PC secrets

    The BIOS is one of the most closely guarded pieces of your system's software. Now some people want to set it free.

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