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safety-critical systems can use ROMsafety-critical systems can use ROMPosted Oct 18, 2006 8:54 UTC (Wed) by edomaur (subscriber, #14520)In reply to: safety-critical systems can use ROM by man_ls Parent article: FSF should separate GPLv3 changes (Linux.com)
>> Who cares, I'm a responsible person and promise solemnly not to do it.
IRL, this is not the case for every person who lives on this Earth.
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safety-critical systems can use ROM Posted Oct 18, 2006 9:14 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] You can only regulate so much -- I would say it is reasonable to do so against careless modification, but not to prevent knowledgeable people from doing so. Just requiring to update the firmware is a reasonable barrier of entry IMHO, at least for things such as wireless spectrum use. We are not talking about spectrum scanners or police radio receivers (and they would be hard to prevent anyway).
safety-critical systems can use ROM Posted Oct 18, 2006 10:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] ... and if they maliciously pick a wrong value, then that's for the justice system to deal with. (Note that the justice system can distinguish between malicious and non-malicious intent, which code cannot. Hell, code can't even determine that you have specific permission to use some frequency, and bans you anyway: viz Alan Cox's complaints that frequency governors in some wireless systems forbid him from using frequencies which he *is* in fact allowed to use due to an amateur radio license...)
If everything followed your criteria, it would be impossible to invite a guest into your house (they're not the owner! they're probably a burglar!)
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