Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-30 Thread D. Starner
Stephen Frost writes: Of course it could. Writing an assembler would probably take some serious effort too without knowing that information. To some extent that's my point- are we going to require hardware specifications for anything that uses firmware? Personally I don't think we need to,

Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread D. Starner
People have argued that since there exists open source tools for editing fonts, font files should be considered their own source, even if Font Foundries have their own preferred source formats and use propietary tools to create font files via a compilation process. But the TrueType files

Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* D. Starner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But almost no one, if given a choice of the binary or the assembly language to edit, would choose the binary. At the very least, the assembly would be invaluable to deciphering the details of the firmware, and I suspect many programmers would write a

Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Frost
* D. Starner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not like there's a whole lot of difference between the assembly and the binary in this case. Write a QD disassembler and extract the assembly if you want. Even if we were talking about x86

Re: Font source Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-29 Thread D. Starner
Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not like there's a whole lot of difference between the assembly and the binary in this case. Write a QD disassembler and extract the assembly if you want. Even if we were talking about x86 assembly, there would still be a lot of difference