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Open Source Enables Terrorist States
chill writes "Where to begin? OpenBSD Journal has a couple of update articles on the business of DARPA cancelling POSSE and OpenBSD's grant. And here is a message from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD big cheese, with a quote from a military spokesman. How does '...due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states...' grab you? Does open source and freely available security support terrorism by its very nature?"
come on, where does it stop. the world is evil! It's a fundamental rule. Evil will always be with us. For anyone to say that they can stop evil is lunacy. you cannot stop evil without becomming evil yourself.
Americans need to wake up and realize that the world is not nice like on TV. Bad guys win usually! People are vice-ridden, mean-spirited, selfish souls in general. to put the bible-pounding hat on a minute, After the whole antichrist thing is over earth will have 1000 years of peace! Then evil will be allowed back into the world and a huge percent of the population will follow it after living under a perfect government!!
Bad things will happen, it is a fact. The question is: Do we live cowering in fear with an oppressive government saping our streangth like in Iraq, or do we live freely, in the open, allowing some enemies to knock us down, but with the streangth in the people to get back up again and again!!
Well - just a couple of non-serious points:
a) GPL lets you hide altered source if you don't give the program to anyone else.
b) I don't think the evil terrorists would care if they weren't allowed
Probably most of the US funded ones do (IRA, contras etc.) but the Muslim ones no doubt carry small watering cans into the toilet to wipe their bums with. And get it (the water) all over the floor. Argh!
When special forces got into iraq and Afghanistan, they did not find Linx, or BSD, or any other open source OS's. They found WINDOWS.
At least people making comments like this could do a little research first.