On May 22, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 16:27 +0200, Christian Iseli wrote: >> /me rambles a bit... >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, I assume such a libre system will run on ix86 and >> x86_64 machines. > I assume Alex won't be including an interpreter for closed-source ACPI > bytecode in his kernel. Is this an intentional strawman, or do you really not get the point? Why wouldn't I? There's nothing offensive or immoral about the interpreter, AFAIK. What is offensive and immoral is the imposition of restrictions on the bytecode that enables one's machine to work. But the interpreter itself can't tell whether it's offensive or immoral, since it doesn't have brains to understand technical and legal restrictions that the bytecode itself or its corresponding source code might be subject to. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
