On Jun 16, 2007, "Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/06/07, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 16, 2007, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > How the hell does that improve the situation for users? >> >> Maybe it doesn't. How does it make it worse? >> > Now not even the vendor can upgrade the software in the hardware and > fix problems for the user. The user loses.
Assuming the vendor's intent as for patching the software is to help the user. If the vendor doesn't want to let the user do that independently, why should this assumption hold? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
