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Made me imagine one of those xkcd:
Me: here is the code.
RMS: what? this is the compiled software.
Me: but the code is there in assembly.
RMS: that's unethical, give me the source code.
Me: ok, here, the source right before compilation.
RMS: this is obfuscated code, still unethical.
Me: granted, here it goes without obfuscation.
RMS: no, wait, the code is so micro-optimized it's no easy to understand, that's not open enough, and, unethical.
Me: ugh but I didn't save the unoptimized version, I just kept optimizing until it got this way.
RMS: look if we can't understand it we won't be able to inspect it, so this is still unethical.
Me: fine, I refactored the code.
RMS: it's undocumented, how are most people going to understand it, imagine a whole operating system undocumented, just, unethical!
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Made me imagine one of those xkcd:
Me: here is the code.
RMS: what? this is the compiled software.
Me: but the code is there in assembly.
RMS: that's unethical, give me the source code.
Me: ok, here, the source right before compilation.
RMS: this is obfuscated code, still unethical.
Me: granted, here it goes without obfuscation.
RMS: no, wait, the code is so micro-optimized it's no easy to understand, that's not open enough, and, unethical.
Me: ugh but I didn't save the unoptimized version, I just kept optimizing until it got this way.
RMS: look if we can't understand it we won't be able to inspect it, so this is still unethical.
Me: fine, I refactored the code.
RMS: it's undocumented, how are most people going to understand it, imagine a whole operating system undocumented, just, unethical!