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How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law (particularly given all the random jurisdictions your con
by chc 7y ago
How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law (particularly given all the random jurisdictions your contributors might be in), and thus "You should not use services that can rat on you and your friends to the cops" seems like a fair value to hold in the context of FOSS development?
- UncleEntity 7y ago> How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law... Creating (or in this case distributing) anything that's against the law could get you in trouble with the law -- kind of how it works.
- franga2000 7y agoCreating FOSS does not get you in trouble with the law. Creating things that are against the law gets you in trouble with the law - FOSS or otherwise (in Zimmerman's case, even if PGP were proprietary, publishing it internationally was illegal). I have a hard time seeing why a FOSS project* would care about discord ratting them out in case of illegal activity if they weren't doing any. Unless the idea of FOSS is illegal, as your comment suggested, but that is plain false (in your example and in all jurisdictions I am even remotely familiar with). * - except for things like Signal, Tor..., which are illegal some places, but they probably wouldn't even consider Discord in the first place