Linux Creator Echoes Schneier

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, recently went on record calling DRM "hot air", claiming it "actually makes it harder for people to do what they want to do" with their computers and in the long run, is incredibly unsuccessful. Torvalds went on to argue what is essentially Bruce Schneier's point in The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention, that although DRM exists to halt consumers and computer-aficionados alike from doing waht they please with their purchased bits and bytes, breaking DRM is and always will be a surmountable obstacle. In this light, Torvalds claim that DRM doesn't "really matter that much" seems appropriate - although perhaps mildly dangerous in terms of rhetoric. (via slashdot)