From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbTDXHb6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:31:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261362AbTDXHb6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:31:58 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:47495 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261328AbTDXHb4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:31:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:44:00 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Message-ID: <20030424074400.GD28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030424051510.GK8931@holomorphy.com> <20030424061500.GN8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030424061500.GN8978@holomorphy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Well, my walking out of computing is tied to complete prevention of > kernel hacking on commodity hardware, so you've not lost anything yet. > I only really care if it's no longer possible to get a commodity system > to run Linux on at all, not about crypto dongles. Hi William, If it ever gets that bad, email me and we'll find a way to create hardware without those restrictions, and get it to people who want it. If the hardware that comes out of industry won't let you hack, hey you still have basic materials like SiO2 from the real world to make your own. Tough, but rewarding :) It only gets _really_ bad when it becomes illegal to make your own hardware :( -- Jamie