On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:

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> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

>

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

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

>

> You seem to be entirely missing the irony of making this statement

> in the context of an argument about software _reverse engineered from

> a binary blob_.

You seem to be entirely missing the fact that it requires extraordinary

skill, which used in the defense of your arguments contradicts the freedom

for all you defend, since it's only avialable to a select few, even among

the already scarce select few programmers among the human beings.
Rui
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