Re: snippets

2003-10-01 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:12:25PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: | I think people are underestimating a couple things: And I think that you are grossly exaggerating what are essentially non-problems. | - the lack of benefit of removing snippets (so far no convincing |practical advantage

Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source

2003-11-20 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:21:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: | On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote: | > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: | > The firmware is needed. Without it, the device is completely dumb. | > But there are some devices

Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

2003-12-07 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 03:46:18PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: | And exec as the Magic Copyright Barrier(tm) is silly. Well, sort of. I can see the perverted logic behind it: on most operating systems, a program and its libraries share a common address space. Once you fork/exec something,