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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by Freedom2 on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:07AM (#37701109)
That doesn't make sense. I can sell the metal, I can shape it to my will, I can rip it apart and use it for other things. Can I do that with the software?
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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by onethought on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:57PM (#37709997)
You can ruin it sure. You don’t know the specific alloy. So you couldn’t reasonably modify for anything useful, what’s its melting point? How should you cool it? You don’t know. You’d have to reverse engineer it, just like the software

Same with the software, there is a pc and an FSD chip in there. You could definitely muck with it. You just don’t have any details. Is it because you’re a software engineer and not a metallurgist that you think like this?

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