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So a reverse engineered Skype client would be OK then?
by MichaelGG 12y ago
So a reverse engineered Skype client would be OK then?
- marvy 12y agoyes, I think so
- cbd1984 12y agoYes, for the same reason Samba, a reverse-engineered SMB/CIFS implementation, is OK. It's a Free Software (GPLv3) way to use a proprietary technology.
- lambda 12y agoAbsolutely. Now, he also does have other concerns about the infrastructure; he would generally prefer to support infrastructure running on open tools and technologies, and may have various other concerns with particular providers. But he sees that as a separate question of the ethical question about running non-free software on his own computers.