On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Adam Shostack wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:07:18PM +0100, cyphrpnk wrote:
| p.s. that freedom source code 2.0 for linux I was porting to BSD | I guess will go into the bit bucket!! 1984 speak my ass!!
Sorry to hear that. I guess your porting the code isn't enough for you to trust it. Odd.
Adam
The trust issue is not the code, the trust issue is the company. If he doesn't feel that the company is committed to maintaining appropriate levels of privacy, he chooses not to expend labor in support of the company's software. And he may trust version 2, without trusting the company to produce a version 3 that he can in good conscience recommend to anyone to use. I have designed and built code for free for people who told me they were going to use it one way -- and sent it to /dev/null when I discovered that they intended to use it another. It's as simple as that. These days, I tend to restrict my coding-for-free effort to projects that will be useful *only* in the ways I think are beneficial to society at large, or to projects that, used by everyone according to their own whim, will at least cause society more good than harm. (Note, I did not say "nations" or "governments" or "businesses" or even "citizens" -- I have a peculiar idea of society and what is beneficial to it). Bear