On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On Saturday 24 January 2009 08:48:56 Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> When the CIA or any other American governmental organisation has >> something >> to share that is of benefit to us, we should be gracious and >> thankful and >> accept and reflect what boon we have been given. Recently we >> accepted some >> advice from Apple. The people around the UNICEF usability >> extensions have >> worked to make their software functional on head. There is a lot of >> great >> work done outside of the WMF and it is at our collective loss when >> all this >> important work is ditched. >> >> If you think the CIA is evil per definition, fine. It does not >> change one >> iota the effort that Brion will put into checking into their code >> or anyone >> else's code. In the end the code makes it obvious if the CIA is >> evil in >> this. > > CIA is evil by definition. If they offer you something, it will be > something > that may seem to be beneficial for you, but will in fact benefit > them. Given > that CIA has much more resources than you, you can never be sure if > their > help will in fact be detrimental to you. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
And that's evil? That sounds like how any profit-seeking corporation ought to work as well. I fail to see how a governmental intelligence agency is evil by definition. -Dan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
