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Re: Part 2: System Structure
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
Subject: |
Re: Part 2: System Structure |
Date: |
Fri, 19 May 2006 15:44:00 -0400 |
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 21:09 +0200, Jörg Bornschein wrote:
> Jörg Bornschein wrote:
> > We are discussing in the context of l4-hurd, an free (as in "open
> > source") operating system. So right now, this cost is reduced to
> > "install another version with an integrated debugger". This cost is
> > IMHO negligible.
> Maybe I should write down where I'd like to end up:
>
> Given a non-TPM, open source system which hardware I own: opaque memory
> is a voluntary feature which can not be relied on. (in the eyes of a
> software "vendor").
>
> Especially: It does not harm the the idea (ideology) of information freedom.
>
> In this case its more comparable to the private/protected access
> modifier in most object oriented programming languages.
I think that for users like you (i.e. developers) this is a fair
analysis. For most end users the perceived cost of this is much higher,
but then again, those users don't know how to work debuggers in any
case.
shap
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- Re: Part 2: System Structure, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/19
- Re: Part 2: System Structure, Jörg Bornschein, 2006/05/19
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