Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Taking a step back: the point of this exercise is to preserve user > freedom. That is, a user should be able to make their computer serve > their interests, and should not be subordinated to upstreams (nor to > Debian or to one of our derivatives0.
> A user who uses NASA's tables for astronomical data is not subordinated > to NASA. If for any reason they don't agree with NASA's views on the > orbits of planets or whatever, then they can put in their own figures. [...] > Compare neural networks: a user who uses a pre-trained neural network is > subordinated to the people who prepared its training data and set up the > training runs. > If the user does not like the results given by the neural network, it is > not sensibly possible to diagnose and remedy the problem by modifying > the weighting tables directly. The user is rendered helpless. This is a great argument. I'm convinced. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>