On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> 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.
Is the NSA also evil, because the created selinux and gave it to the open source community? open source is a non-zero sum game. In open source, an improvement is able to be beneficial to everyone even when the donator was being selfish and building it only for their own needs. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
