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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?Posted Feb 28, 2008 21:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? by ketilmalde Parent article: Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Your whole post was a tissue of logical fallacies, but I'm just going to mention this one because it's rather amusing: I used to laugh about the old-times comparison of free software to communism, but the emphatic instence from vocal elements that I should only use my computer in specific ways to fulfil their moral views, that is right there with oppressive dictatorships - and thank god these people don't have any actual way of enforcing this.i.e., they're not like oppressive dictatorships? I'd say it was an essential characteristic of oppressive dictatorships that they can dictate and oppress.
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Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 29, 2008 8:01 UTC (Fri) by ketilmalde (guest, #18719) [Link] > i.e., they're not like oppressive dictatorships? Yes. They share the mentality, but thankfully not the means. > Your whole post was a tissue of logical fallacies, but I'm just going to mention this one because it's rather amusing: Since it apparently wasn't clear enough what I meant, allow me to restate: Some people think that because they (are part of a "community"|contribute to the Linux kernel|believe in the right deity|are devout members of the right party), this equips them with the superior morals to decide what others should and should not do - as well as claim ownership of others' resources (confer Corbets "we", relating to the time and effort of eight people developing Nouveau drivers, or the notion that the nVidia binary driver is somehow a derived work of the Linux kernel). I find the notion offensive, and counter to the spirit of free software as I understand it. Now if you have a problem with that, I'm sure you can do better than offer patronizing and prejudicial remarks. Can't you? -k
Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves? Posted Feb 29, 2008 22:20 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I've only encountered people trying to tell volunteers what to do a few times in more than a decade of observing numerous development lists. In each case the result is... well, generally the poor sods get laughed at, whch is even worse than flaming :) It seems to me that you're complaining about a vanishingly rare problem which is easily dealt with (oh, so you're *not* paying us, but presume to instruct us? We'll ignore you. That was easy.)
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