Re: [OS:N:] DRM and Open Source

"M. Fioretti" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.open-source-now
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 06:31:29 at 06:31:29AM -0700, James Michael DuPont ([email protected]) wrote:
> 
> > I don't see how DRM - in and of itself - can make open source
> > unusable. 
> 
> because it is impossible to make an "open source" program that cannot
> be modified to LIE about its own state.
> 
Uh? What do you mean? You could do it, but looking at the sources, or
comparing binary checksums against trusted sources one would see it
was altered, right?

Marco Fioretti

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