On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:19:39AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:

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

>

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

> > > 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.

>

> I don't know which of "my arguments" you are talking about in your

> pontificating rant, because this is the first time I have ever replied to

> you.

>

> Last too.

The evidence indicates that Rui is not, in fact, a human

being, but the latest (and possibly the most impressive

to date) application of the Dada Engine.
-b