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Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo



Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > [...] free but hard to hack. I don't really see how
> > you can blanket-ban them from main. As pointed out elsewhere,
> > practical concerns usually keeps us away from these edge cases
> > and the other few we'll argue about. How are you about the nv
> > driver now?
> But how do you argue that a hand-crafted binary is sufficiently
> modifiable without also admitting the possibility that the output
> of a C compiler may be sufficiently modifiable?

I think it depends what the upstream author is using as source.
How about you?

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