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>My view on this is increasingly that software should be forced to be open-source and modifiable by the (individual) user. But it should not allow the user to r
by dTal 10y ago
>My view on this is increasingly that software should be forced to be open-source and modifiable by the (individual) user. But it should not allow the user to run the code without the developer/owner authorization.
How can you stop someone from running code they have access to? If I write a new program but use routines from yours, who is the "developer/owner"? I can't picture this scheme.
- sprafa 10y agoYou can't run someone else's code, unless you have paid them first. And no one you share the code to can do it either, unless they paid the original author of the code.
- schoen 10y agoI think the parent's question is not about the policy matter but more like "how could this kind of DRM work?" (technically).