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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free
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alírio eyng |
Subject: |
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Apr 2016 03:26:10 +0000 |
Felipe Sanches:
>I think MAME is likely not compatible with the free sw distro
>guidelines.
ignoring the trademark; as a whole, mame is in the same category as
wine, which is allowed.
but most parts of it are in the same category as ndiswrapper; i don't
think this parts should be allowed just because they are bundled
together.
>I think shipping a prebuilt binary package of MAME is
>not really useful for **most** of the things that MAME is useful other
>than playing non-free games.
...
>I still think that MAME is a very useful asset for education on
>electronics, hardware design, reverse engineering techniques, and
>similar topics as well as for the historical preservation of our
>technological legacy (even if it's a legacy of mostly non-free
>programs, we still must not "burn books", right?).
i think the argument here is "obsolete interfaces are useful by themselves".
this imply reversing the decision on ndiswrapper.
this is a valid approach (eliminating false negative errors)[1] but
probably not the best way to protect freedom.
>I will try not to talk here any more, unless I
>have something really new to say.
i will probably continue replying while people are quoting me and
making proposals or confusing general-purpose runtime dependencies
with tools for reverse engineering without understanding the
consequences.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/false_positives_and_false_negatives#False_negative_error
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, (continued)
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 2016/04/01
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/02
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Tobias Platen, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/03
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software,
alírio eyng <=
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, rain1, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, J.B. Nicholson, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Joshua Gay, 2016/04/05
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Felipe Sanches, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, alírio eyng, 2016/04/04
- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, 2016/04/09