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@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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