Michael Hughes

Sydney

Enterprise Architect

Copyright works in a DMCA world can only be distributed under the terms set-out by the rights holder - i.e. DVDs. If the rights holder say you've got to jump, then you either fail to access the content, or you jump. The GPL is doing it's job - the FSF are on target - the license is needed and adequate.

As an Australian, even I recognise that Microsoft have told the US Antitrust investigators and the EU Antitrust regulators that they won't follow the sovregin rules of those states (in some cases directly and others non-verbal). Why then would I expect Microsoft to announce that they'd follow rules put up by someone random collection of programmers? It's a nonsensical statement .. MS will be MS, their come-uppance will be when it is.