Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Zander
On Friday 10. October 2014 19.26.49 Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core > is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently > modifying their software as they package it. And so far its been near impossible for those

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Justus Ranvier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/10/2014 05:26 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but > Bitcoin Core is not the first project that's had issues with Linux > distros silently modifying their software as they package it. In > this

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Mike Hearn
I'm sure this suggestion will go down like a lead balloon, but Bitcoin Core is not the first project that's had issues with Linux distros silently modifying their software as they package it. In this case Luke has changed things to be closer to what users expect, which is good to see, but I expect

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Something people are forgetting about the Gentoo / Luke-jr censorship issue

2014-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
The whole issue is a troll, and I'm afraid you got sucked in. There are no plans to add a blacklist to Bitcoin Core. -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ ---