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MBCookyesterday at 11:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s taint. Anyone who looks at it can’t work on a real open source driver because they will have had access to information they’re not supposed to.

It won’t be clean room like the stuff Alyssa did.


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alightsoulyesterday at 11:11 PM

Can't this be used to make a clean room implementation? Have someone write a spec then someone else who is unrelated, implement it from scratch?

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theoreticalmalyesterday at 11:11 PM

That’s the most abstract and esoteric argument I’ve ever heard I think

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