On Jun 9, 2008, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:54:07PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> license or by copyright law. As I stated before, it's a moral, >> ethical and social issue, even if it's also a negligible legal issue. > You can load the CPU firmware updates by > - Having the BIOS load it > - Having the kernel load it > - Having user space apps load it This completely neglects the question as to how you got the firmware update in the first place. It's like going "Your honor, I shouldn't be punished for the alleged murder because I didn't kill the victim, the bullet did. I just pulled the trigger. Anyone else could have done that and the victim would end up dead just the same, so why should I be punished for something that anyone else could have done?" What kind of a defense is that? It's obvious that who put the bullet in motion has responsibility over the result, even though the victim could have got the bullet in her chest with help from anyone else, or even without help. Likewise, it's obvious that whoever distributed the firmware to you has responsibility over the result, even though you could have got the firmware from many others, or even got them straight from the vendor. Of course, in the case of non-Free Software, the bullet doesn't kill right away; it rather contains addictive poison that the vendor puts in there to get the victims dependent, paralyzed and even thinking it's good for them. -- 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
