On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:10:01PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > If users don't normally install microcode in the CPU, then ethically > it may as well be a circuit. It is not built as a circuit, but that's > a different question.
That may as well be an ethically confusing sentence. If users don't normally install ice cream in the banana, then ethically it may as well be a fruit. Oh My Gnu!... We shall not endorse restaurants which serve pre-compiled banana split for dessert to innocent guests when those guests ask for it, unless the restaurant provides them with the complete recipe and all ingredients!