On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:11:38AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > > Good luck doing so without any source code. > Teehee Teehee. No luck required. > It does however take a wee bit of skill and competence. > Actually, for exacting work, the source is a liability. > The source tends to make assorted bugs vanish. > > > You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without > > the freedom to change a program because he has no access to > > the source code. > Presumably you speak from your own experience and your own powerlessness. > If a programmer is competent, the programmer does not need the source and > the programmer does not even need to know the language. Assorted malware is > done without having the source. Very well it seems. > > To EASILY change something, the source is needed. > Acutally, the entire build environment is needed. > Just having the source is easily less modifyable than having an operable > binary.
So your defense of that position is that the bar to freedom should be raisable at will just because some extremely few people can do that? That's rich. If life was *so* easy like you say, then you don't need specs, do you? You are so "in" the league that you can just go get ATI/NVIDIA's binary drivers and write a working one for OpenBSD. Go ahead! Make all OpenBSD users happy for having a free driver writen from modification of the binary version to a free one. ddate really chose an appropriate expression: -- All Hail Discordia! Today is Pungenday, the 39th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
