On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:52:08 +0200 Denis wrote: > > Is this kind of issue really limited to emulators? > Yes there is. Some compatibility layers have the same issue. > > It also applies to operating systems like Android etc, so we can treat > the issue in a more generic way if we want. > > > Perhaps you can generalize it to be about programs with a certain > > structure of use cases, rather than "emulators". > Yes.
this part just went full-circle back to a few weeks ago "emulators and other hosts of foreign applications" https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2023-06/msg00088.html as i noted earlier, it depends how "generically" they are viewed - in the strictest sense, it would apply to every runtime and language interpreter, such as java, dotnet, python, gnu-smalltalk, etc - anything which can be characterized as a VM even those which would be the safest to recommend, such as QEMU, can run non-free software as well as anything
