MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the hand-crafted binary example, it would be *possible* to
do both of those. Notice that the freedom doesn't require it
to be easy. It's near the border, about where the nv driver was
accused of being: free but hard to hack. I don't really see how
you can
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all (and most telling, to my view) there's are a lot of
reasonably in this definition. I think you're using these to paper
over a lot of difficult cases. It doesn't work very well for our
purposes
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how do you argue that a hand-crafted binary is sufficiently
modifiable without also admitting the possibility that the output
of a C compiler may be sufficiently modifiable?
I think it depends what the upstream
Andrew Suffield wrote:
Intermediate cases require the exercise of judgement, as always. A
photograph of the Eiffel Tower is probably the best we're going to
get; there's only one of them and it won't fit in the archive. A
photograph of a PCB layout, constructed by a secret program, is not a
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how do you argue that a hand-crafted binary is sufficiently
modifiable without also admitting the possibility that the output
of a C compiler may be sufficiently
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how do you argue that a hand-crafted binary is sufficiently
modifiable without also admitting the possibility that the output
of a C compiler may be sufficiently modifiable?
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:59:44PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:15:41 -0700, Joel Aelwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Actually, we aim to throw out 100% of closed-source software. But I'm
assuming you were just being careless with trying to make a point.
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:52:07PM +, Brett Parker wrote:
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip /
I rephrase: how can you argue that a hand-crafted binary is not
sufficiently modifiable to offer the freedom to study and adapt?
How you can argue that a binary output by a
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:42:58 + Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But in the case of the photographer Laura, if she thinks (in good
faith) that she has the JPEG only, then JPEG is her preferred form
for modification. When she finds out that another
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