On Jun 20, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> We already know the vendor doesn't care about the user, so why should >> we take this into account when analyzing the reasoning of the vendor?
> no, we don't know this. you attribute the reason for the lockdown to > be anti-user. others view it as being pro-user becouse it lets the > user get functionality that they wouldn't have access to otherwise. Yeah, yeah, now please put your hands to the back such that I can place your handcuffs, such that you can't use your hands to kill someone. Well, you might still be able to use your hands for this purpose if you're really clever, or you can kill people by other means. But at least I'll be able to claim that I did my part. :-/ -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/