On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 06:09:15PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I'm not fine with it. It's an unfortunate situation too. But
producing
a single special case trivial display program for users who couldn't
run anything which was truly free at all is hardly comparable to
cryptographically locking down the core of an OS— millions of lines of
code written by other people, and missing an opportunity to help users
regain their complete freedom at a time when they are most ready and
willing to accept a little inconvenience.
It's comparable in that you're willing to give up a freedom for some
functionality. Personally I think the functionality you'd gain is small
compared to the freedom you'd lose, and you obviously feel the same
about my position.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org