[LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

[Julian Yap]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:25 -1000, Jimen Ching wrote:
> YOU don't NEED to care.  A lot of people don't NEED to care.  As long as 
> there are people who do care and are willing to fight for those rights. 
> You'll continue to enjoy the benefits.  That's how it worked in the past. 
> That's how it's going to work in the future.  What you're seeing now is 
> just the process...

That takes the view that there's enough people fighting for freedom in
the first place and that they will actually win.

Take for instance DRM (Digital Rights/Restrictions Management).
Technologies like that are put to unknowing users who don't know the
implications...  Until they want to move all their DRM'd songs to a new
computer they just bought and realize the songs aren't "authored" for
that computer.

What if a vast majority of consumers "didn't care" and you ended up in a
world where you could only by a new PC which could ONLY run Windows?

This is how:
http://www.xbox360-hacks.com/2005/11/25/free60-linux-on-your-xbox360-project/

Wouldn't that powerful hardware be useful for other applications?

Yes, it would:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Linux

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do
nothing." - Edmund Burke