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From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 3/15/2007 11:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: free speech, lawyers, and the nature of source code, etc. (was Re: AAC licence) There is not a one to one correspondence between source code and object code, ie you change compilers, or even compiler options within the same compiler, and you get different object code. Not to mention compiling for different processors. But I think Chris Bayley is looking in the right place for the reasons for source only distribution. stringer wrote: > I like to argue it to the computer illiterate thus: > > Source code is human readable (supposedly!!) > > Machine code is what the computer chip understands (whether PC or Mac) > > A compiler simply translates from one to the other. > > So in reality, its corollary is translating English into another > language (whether French or German or whatever) > > Source code and machine code are really the same thing, just as the > Count of Monte Christo is the same thing written in English as in French! > > Q.E.D.???? > > At 13:26 16/03/07 +1300, you wrote:
