mpyne - thanks for clarifying: I see it now. I've never been a fan of "slippery slope" arguments because once you start on them, you never know where they finis

mpyne - thanks for clarifying: I see it now. I've never been a fan of "slippery slope" arguments because once you start on them, you never know where they finish. I know why FSF takes the line it does, I'm just saying it is a line that has taken us to a strange place where open source advocates are simultaneously supplying the NSA with services to carry out surveillance, defending the practice, but complaining about the surveillance. And as for "Accumulo is a tool". That's kind of a "guns don't kill people" argument. Would you apply the same argument to private companies supplying authoritarian regimes with deep packet inspection software? I see little difference in the cases.