From: Felipe Sanches <juca@members.fsf.org>
To: Workgroup for fully free GNU/Linux distributions
<gnu-linux-libre@nongnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 16:39:17 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK6XL6AdHCoTTDxHE2FNXPTo9CdGzmiUw-wrPHc33vUPeJbx+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkz57Ena4vfm6cRzHAf0z99uKODo=YPfPMMrEKoXphFZ6XWUA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, alírio eyng <alirioeyng@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tobias Platen:
>> Emulators can be useful for reverse engineering
> reverse engineering is the action of understanding undocumented
> interfaces (mostly hardware).
> emulators are the _result_ of reverse engineering, not tools to do it.
> this result is useless if there's no other interface implementations
> to develop things to or free software requiring it to run.
I completely disagree!
I have been actively using MAME to perform reverse engineering of
non-free firmware for a bit more than a couple years.
Since I do it myself, I know my sentence is true :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-03 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 16:31 MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software alírio eyng
2016-03-30 22:30 ` Isaac David
2016-04-02 3:17 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-03-31 22:50 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-01 6:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-01 12:15 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-01 20:03 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-02 2:19 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-02 8:48 ` [GNU-linux-libre] " alírio eyng
2016-04-03 14:20 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 18:36 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 19:39 ` Felipe Sanches [this message]
2016-04-03 21:02 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-03 21:22 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 3:26 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-04 11:19 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:23 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-04 22:47 ` [GNU-linux-libre] " Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:58 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-04 22:59 ` Felipe Sanches
2016-04-05 2:29 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-09 9:00 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-09 19:43 ` alírio eyng
2016-04-27 0:31 ` [GNU-linux-libre] " alírio eyng
2016-04-05 15:59 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2016-04-06 11:02 ` alírio eyng
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-30 4:10 IngeGNUe
2016-03-30 16:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-30 21:26 ` IngeGNUe
2016-03-29 14:01 Jean Louis
2016-03-29 14:46 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-28 21:55 Jean Louis
2016-03-29 0:26 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 4:42 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 6:27 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 7:30 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 8:25 ` Jookia
2016-03-29 11:35 ` rain1
2016-03-29 12:00 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 12:48 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-29 14:23 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-29 14:52 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 17:29 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 17:47 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 12:41 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-03-29 1:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-03-29 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 17:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-29 17:32 ` Thompson, David
2016-03-29 17:37 ` Eric Bavier
2016-03-30 20:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 8:58 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-29 10:12 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-29 13:51 ` Jean Louis
2016-03-29 16:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
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