To be fair, that is no less a problem with proprietary software. With open source, you at least have the option of paying someone with fewer scruples to pick up

To be fair, that is no less a problem with proprietary software. With open source, you at least have the option of paying someone with fewer scruples to pick up the work. My personal perspective is that in most cases the amount of benefit "evil" people would get is likely dwarfed by the benefit to "good" people. In this case it seems ICE is a particularly nasty piece of work and the protest seems to have had some impact on them, but it's more from raised awareness than anything else. I don't think there's any need to become paranoid about whether your morals completely agree with people whose software you're using.