On Jun 16, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are not keeping a priviledge over the *SOFTWARE* at all. They > are keeping a priviledge over the *HARDWARE*.
No, they're using the hardware (along with other pieces of software) to deny users (but not themselves) the freedoms that the license of software *meant* to defend, for that software, even if some believe it doesn't actually defend them. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
