Hi, On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:05:46PM -0600, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> Yes, but perhaps I wish to refuse the allow the program to run in > certain circumstances, and so I wish to write encode into the program > the means for detecting these situations. You have taken that ability > from me. You are constraining my actions, and removing my freedom. Yes, we are taking your "freedom" to enslave others. > If I wrote a program that I wished to keep for myself, I might encode > into it a way to make sure that only I am running it. If someone then > steals my private program, what is essentially my property, they can > benefit from it without my consent. You are enabling theft without > repercussion. If you keep it to yourself, only you have access to it anyways. I don't see a problem here. -antrik- _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
