Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > >> Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > You can pull the chip from the socket, copy the contents to disk, >> > and >> >> I probably can't. No good with that sort of thing. Software on disk >> is software. Also, I could pull the Pentium off my motherboard, scan >> its contents to disk, and open that in any editor I like -- right? > > Lots of people cannot write or modify C code, but we accept as free > many programs that include C code. The user being inexpert in some > technique does not render a thing non-free.
But something being *not software* does render it *not software*. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]