On: FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

[darrenf]

I'm not so sure about this claim. Here's a Microsoft press release from April '99 about digital rights management, which uses the DRM acronym throughout: https://news.microsoft.com/1999/04/13/microsoft-and-reciproc...

Seems like they filed for a patent that same month using the same terminology https://patents.google.com/patent/US7103574B1/en