On 21/01/2008, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
My worst case scenario is that in the belief of doing something good for the world -- trying to lead towards greater freedom in distribution and authoring of content -- we'll actually achieve the opposite: lead people to repositories and archives that are much less principled and whose operators would never even conceive having a debate like this one.
Generally the "we should do something evil to stop someone else doing that thing first" argument is rejected outside the context of unilateral nuclear strikes.