[Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I am glad that I have left my paranoia to a guy who is good at assessing
whatever it is we get in the sense of code. In the mean time we have been
using the CIA fact book for years now. They indeed have more resources and
we have been using them. You know what, when we get code from the CIA, you
can review this sane code as well.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/1/24 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>

> On Saturday 24 January 2009 08:48:56 Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > When the CIA or any other American governmental organisation has
> something
> > to share that is of benefit to us, we should be gracious and thankful and
> > accept and reflect what boon we have been given. Recently we accepted
> some
> > advice from Apple. The people around the UNICEF usability extensions have
> > worked to make their software functional on head. There is a lot of great
> > work done outside of the WMF and it is at our collective loss when all
> this
> > important work is ditched.
> >
> > If you think the CIA is evil per definition, fine. It does not change one
> > iota the effort that Brion will put into checking into their code or
> anyone
> > else's code. In the end the code makes it obvious if the CIA is evil in
> > this.
>
> CIA is evil by definition. If they offer you something, it will be
> something
> that may seem to be beneficial for you, but will in fact benefit them.
> Given
> that CIA has much more resources than you, you can never be sure if their
> help will in fact be detrimental to you.
>
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