Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo
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Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
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> > 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?
In that particular case, you've got the output of compiler, therefore
the authors prefered form of modification is the "source", it's *really*
got source, there was a before stage, it wasn't a hand crafted binary.
I can see where you're coming from though. I think this is very much an
edge case, and I doubt that there are *that many* people that would hand
craft an elf binary without using a compiler chain. Of course, providing
a binary only also limits which archs you can use it on, which you
*might* be able to do given C/C++/ObjC/Fortran/SomethingGoesHere source.
I wonder if I'm missing something, somewhere?
Cheers,
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Brett Parker
web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/
email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk
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