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  • It’s not that there isn’t a license, there is, but the license says there is no license, it’s public domain, do whatever you like. It’s not a problem if your license says that there is no license, but yes, it is a problem if you don’t have any license attached to your code. In those cases, yes, most distros don’t touch that code… or maybe point at the project, but do whatever you deem is right with it, we’re officially not touching it.





















  • My point was, it flopped as a standard. It’s not that it’s good or bad, it’s just not used any more, there are no new devices with FireWire. USB killed it essentially. The same will happen with Thunderbolt, USB 3.x will kill it.

    I seriously doubt there will be something that will replace USB. It’s backwards compatible to oblivion and just supports newer and newer things. It’s very hard to beat that.


  • If by maliciously you mean a virus might take advantage of the system in those 5 minute, the answer is, yes, it is possible… not likely, but possible.

    If the question was, can the shell by itself escalate a command that does not have sudo in front of the command, the answer is no. If it did that, than there are some serious bugs in the code… or some malicious code planted in it. By definition, it’s not supposed to do what you don’t tell it to do.