Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo
MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> How does that affect the recipient's ability to modify the work?
>
> That's a different question: if a recipient is incapable of
> modifying the work, does it mean that they do not have the
> freedom to modify it? I say they have freedom but are incapable
> of exploiting it.
I agree.
> I rephrase: how can you argue that a hand-crafted binary is not
> sufficiently modifiable to offer the freedom to study and adapt?
How you can argue that a binary output by a compiler is not sufficiently
modifiable to offer the freedom to study and adapt?
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