>Maybe debian-x, maybe debian-devel or maybe you need a new list. Ok, debian-wankers, got it. If some people feel the topic is so absurd, why do they waste their time answering rudely ? I expect contradiction, but if gratuitously insulting others is some game, let them play with their sado-masochists friends, that's not my fetish.
>Just because you don't agree with the view doesn't make it a "legal finesse". Keep your linguistic pyrotechnics in a dry metal box. I am already convinced by the arguments of the people who actually bothered to correct me through technical explanations that there is most probably no automatic obfuscation involved -bullying does not cut it on the other hand. What still bothers me is that after Daniel Stone's very opinion, nobody could honestly prefer to write a driver using hex values for registers AND functions, period. This is not just a case of bad coding practices, it is deliberate. What for ? Granted, there are 99,999% of chances this is devised to protect engineering secrets. Remain 0.001% to do whatever wrong. >Can you direct me to the reasoning of the FSF on this, please? Certainly. From http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html: "[software freedom includes] the freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is a precondition for this." What is source code then ? From the GPL: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." Now, only one person working at NVidia maintains the driver. Is this the proof of a lack of interest for NVidia's hardware from the free software developers, or that they are de facto denied the freedom to improve the program because the source is voluntarily obscure ? (Notice I did not say obfusacted.) Bye, Camille d'Alméras __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]