From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T12:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Secure Ruby Compiler

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:27:57 +0900, John Johnson <johnatl@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> On Friday, July 9, 2004, at 10:00 PM, zuzu wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:35:55 +0900, John Johnson <johnatl@mac.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Friday, July 9, 2004, at 08:09 PM, zuzu wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 08:17:31 +0900, John Johnson <johnatl@mac.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> It's a choice. If you want to share your source, that is your
> >>>> decision.
> >>>> If you don't, that is also your decision.
> >>>
> >>> i could burn down your house, and that would be my decision.
> >>> or i could not, and that would be my decicion.
> >>
> >> That's completely different. Burning down my house infringes on my
> >> rights.
> >> Obfuscating your source does not.
> >
> > how does obfuscated code not infringe my rights?
> 
> Because you have the choice not to use it.

sure, and slaves have the choice not to work.

choices are limited by available information/knowledge, precisely the
problem at hand.

-z