Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote:

>>> I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has

>>> the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow

>>> some users to loose freedom...

>> Hello again Rui,

>>

>> the US. Over here, if you own a copy of a program, you can modify it as

>> much as you want

>

> Good luck doing so without any source code.

Did you read the subject line in the last week? It states something

about Atheros, remember that some very nice chap has reverse engineered

the HAL for the Atheros and then donated that to the Open Source

community under a nice license? Then some people thought it was fun to

simply remove his name, change his license and break his copyright on

something he worked very hard for.
>> Of course, you are free to have strong feelings about whatever you like,

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>> and hold opinions based on flawed understanding, but as long as you

>> insist on remaining uneducated about the laws, you are failing yourself

>> and failing your supposed "duty" to make things clear. Please stop.

>

> You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to

> change a program because he has no access to the source code.

That is only because you are uneducated in the art of assembly and more

importantly there in the art of disassembly. That you are powerless

doesn't mean that other people are not.
Greets,

 Jeroen
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