Re: Meltdown / Spectre

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:


> I think the real and thornier question for GuixSD
> is: if the recent CPU vulnerabilities require a
> microcode update to fully mitigate, then how do we
> square not recommending proprietary globs like
> this in official channels with giving users all
> knowledge required to decide for themselves?

Yes, this exactly.

It's a unique (hm, is it?) situation pitting the ideals of copyleft
against the welfare of users. If an opaque microcode is required to
successfully mitigate these bugs, what is the moral stance to take?

I don't have an answer and that's why I'm asking here :)

-- 
Katherine