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Except DRM in this context is a Direct Rendering Manager [1] which is a slightly different struggle getting pixels onto the screen.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager




Let's take a survey and ask people what "DRM" stands for.

I would bet a decent amount of money that the copyguarding one wins out over the rendering-manager one.


Unless you have a time machine, we can't go back and rename the subsystem.




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