Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:39:50 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:02:54PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> Point for me is, that with a DRM you could 100% verify that foreign > module Y is 100% from company Z. Or that binary product F is 100% from > the company and can be trusted to run here or there.
Excuse me, but I don't get the last part. You know that F had been built in environment of unspecified degree of security from source that had been kept in <---> written by programmers you don't know who had been hired in conformace with criteria <---> and released after passing QA of unknown quality (but you can bet that they had missed some security holes in the past) under a license that almost certainly disclaims any responsibility.
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