On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
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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And that's evil? That sounds like how any profit-seeking corporation
ought to work as well. I fail to see how a governmental intelligence
agency is evil by definition.
-Dan