On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Companies are free to produce whatever crap they want. Unless you are a > FSF (or > RMS) fanatic, there is nothing wrong with DRM really. > > Cheers, > There is absolutely nothing right about denying people the right to use their own property however they like. I guess it is all right to want to make all new PCs sold with Windows 8 locked to only Windows 8? What about ebooks? I am a heavy reader, with lots of ebooks, but publishers don't want me to be able to read my books on linux, or on an ereader from a different vendor than the ebook came from. OK, yeah, I suppose I don't *have* to buy any of these things... but that doesn't seem like a reasonable option. If I change from a Kindle to a Kobo or Nook or Sony, I should have to repurchase all my ebooks? If the store I bought from goes out of business, I lose all future access to my ebooks? And the alternative is, I guess, don't read ebooks, just lug around a roomful of books everywhere I go? And while I am at it, I can do all my computation with the work of the late great Charles Babbage...
