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safety-critical systems can use ROMsafety-critical systems can use ROMPosted Oct 18, 2006 10:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: safety-critical systems can use ROM by edomaur Parent article: FSF should separate GPLv3 changes (Linux.com)
... 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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