> From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [mailto:rms@1407.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:48 AM
> To: Tony Abernethy
> Cc:
misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:25:29AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote:
> > Damien Miller wrote:
> > > To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> > > Cc: J.C. Roberts;
misc@openbsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words
> > >
> > > 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_.
> > >
> >
> > Obviously he's never read machine code ;)
>
> I've written it, and swore never again to do so unless life
> depends on it. You have to be extremely skilled and with an
> excessive ammount of free time to make an argument based on
> that defense.
>
> Whilst the first case is a compliment, the second not really
> (but not an insult either).
>
> > Has the state of the art gone down that badly in the last
> forty-odd years?
> > Even I know better,
> > and there's people on this list that actually know something.
>
> Yeah sure, like OpenBSD is 100% written in machine code *giggle*
>
> Rui
>
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