[sldev] property rights in distributed systems

[Ben Byer]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Laurent Laborde wrote:

> On 9/8/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
>>
>> But when writing Open Source and spending hours and weeks on code
>> that itself is GPL, MIT and whatnot, it sounds a bit odd to me
>> when in designing the content storage, the one of the major design
>> goals (or obstacles) is to allow people to make what they build
>> inside that project "closed source".
>
> That's just right managment... like a good old filesystem, protected
> memory, privilegied network port (<1024), ...

Nope.

All three examples you just named are cases where the operating  
system is enforcing some rules for the benefit of the user (owner) of  
the system.  Accordingly, all can by bypassed in some way by a local  
user.

The "DRM" or property rights issue is the complete opposite -- it's  
my computer trying to prevent me from doing something I might want to  
do (copy objects I didn't create).

-b