On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:11:38AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote:

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> > 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:
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