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Some people are just never happy...

• CamperBob2 11y ago
  Pardon me for not tripping over myself to thank Gates for liberating the Feynman Lectures by locking them up in an encumbered proprietary format for his company's own benefit. We can say what we want about copyright law, but at least copyright is based on the idea that the protected material will eventually become accessible in the public domain. DRM offers us no such bargain.
  • ekianjo 11y ago
    I don't know why you are being downvoted. Releasing something for free should not be an excuse to use DRM and to push one's platform. Such videos could have been made available through other means.
    • bhrgunatha 11y ago
      Especially 6 years after the fact plus with Silverlight being deprecated and for Linux Moonlight is abandoned.
    • CamperBob2 11y ago
      On HN, you tend to get modded down for one of two reasons: 1) you're wrong about something; or 2) you're right about something. Can't take it too personally either way.
  • sliverstorm 11y ago
    You don't have to thank him, it just doesn't make sense to complain. As far as I understand, you have more access to those lectures than you did before, even if you have to deal with Silverlight.