DRM. Funny how acronyms can change their meaning. DRM to many means Digital Rights Management. To other it has simply taken the meaning of Digital Restriction Management.

David Reed was chief scientist and VP R&D at Lotus: “This is what is wrong with Berman-Coble, with DRM, with TCPA, and with Gator. It’s my computer, dammit. If I don’t give informed consent, you can’t use it.”
http://www.satn.org/archive/2002_09_29_archive.html

Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc, the first killer app for the PC: “If you are an artist or author who cares more than about the near-term value of your work, you should be worried and be careful about releasing your work only in copy protected form. Like the days when “art” was only accessible to the rich, two classes will probably develop: Copy protected and not copy protected, the “high art” and “folk art” of tomorrow.”
http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm

Ray Ozzie, inventor of what became Lotus Notes, the world’s first groupware collaborative software for PCs, a killer app: “With rich and open access, will contractual controls on use of Web Services data be sufficient, or will we need technical means of use enforcement? How far will Digital Restrictions Management creep its way
into the system-to-system realm?”
http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/08/22/nondiscretionaryControlsCantLiveWithemCant.html

Quotes compiled by Nathan Cochrane, Deputy IT Editor: Next: The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.