Re: Question About GNU General Public License

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 01:23 +0000, wrote:
> > The hardware is 100% not derivable in software.
> 
> If you are trying to say that there is a sacred division between
> where hardware ends and software begins then you do not understand
> computing machinery.

If you try to convince me that apples == oranges than it's you who don't
understand computing machinery.

Sure hardware has software logic (usually immutable), but hardware is a
physical device with builtin logic. Just that. No software is derivable
from hardware since they're of two completely different classes.

It's like saying a book is a derivate work of a common stone.

> > Do not mix matter with mind please. You
> > just lost all potential reason.
> 
> I am willing to believe that there is a distinction between matter
> and mind only after I have seen an experiment that can measure the
> distinction. Do you know of such an experiment?

Yes. Mind, the realm of ideas, where the subject can be shared without
any loss of the emitter. If you transmit an idea you don't loose it. You
still have it, and the receivers now have it _too_ (neutral-win)

If you give your video card to someone else, you lost your video card
(loose-win).

It's a very clear distinction, at least to me. Do you have a problem
with that? In mind the most common transactions are neutral-win. You
didn't loose an idea (neutral) I won by learning something.

Rui

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