[Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> 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.

Is the NSA also evil, because the created selinux and gave it to the
open source community?

open source is a non-zero sum game.  In open source, an improvement is
able to be beneficial to everyone even when the donator was being
selfish and building it only for their own needs.

--
John Vandenberg