darryl, when you say DRM is "against the spirit of open-source", that isn't really true.
It is against the spirit of free (libre) software. The free software movement is an ideological development policy founded on user freedom.
It is not against the spirit of open-source software. The open-source movement is a practical development policy with the goal of crowd-sourcing better code.
Assuming arguendo that open DRM is somehow not an oxymoron, there is no conflict with the spirit of open-source software. The Free Software Foundation would have a major ethical problem, but the developers clearly don't identify with the free software movement.
And they certainly seem to
believe it isn't an oxymoron, see the developer's comment on Nate's blog:
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There are ways of making a DRM system reasonably robust even if the source code is open source, which are being incorporated into the architecture of Readium LCP. Contact me separately for details. Does this mean it’s hackproof? Of course not, no such thing.
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