Re: Part 2: System Structure

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 21:09 +0200, Jörg Bornschein wrote:
> Jörg Bornschein wrote:
> > We are discussing in the context of l4-hurd, an free (as in "open 
> > source") operating system. So right now, this cost is reduced to 
> > "install another version with an integrated debugger". This cost is 
> > IMHO negligible.
> Maybe I should write down where I'd like to end  up:
> 
> Given a non-TPM, open source system which hardware I own: opaque memory 
> is a voluntary feature which can not be relied on. (in the eyes of a 
> software "vendor").
> 
> Especially: It does not harm the the idea (ideology) of information freedom.
> 
> In this case its more comparable to the private/protected access 
> modifier in most object oriented programming languages.

I think that for users like you (i.e. developers) this is a fair
analysis. For most end users the perceived cost of this is much higher,
but then again, those users don't know how to work debuggers in any
case.

shap