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