Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Voyeur - Linux game hacking tool - savannah.nongnu.org

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Rudy Gevaert <address@hidden> writes:

> And what about the P2P clients we are hosting?  They are in the
> first place used to share non-free software and to share music.

They are probably USED for that, but the software is DESIGNED to be an
effective method to distribute software which does not have any moral
or immoral attributes.

I don't see any problem in hosting P2P clients.

Analogies:

  A knife was DESIGNED to cut, but when a person USES it to kill a
  human, it is the USE not the DESIGN what can be judged.

  The FTP protocol was DESIGNED to transfer data, it is up to the USER
  to decide if the data transferred is legal or illegal.

Note that I am capitalizing the key concepts: DESIGN and USE.

Stretching a little the analogies:

  A war bomb is designed to harm people, explosives are designed to
  blow up things.  So, "hosting bombs" would be a problem for
  Savannah, but "hosting explosives" not.

  You can use explosives to build a tunnel to join communities, while
  you cannot use a war bomb to anything else than harming people.
  (note: if you modify the bomb to help you build a tunnel, it loses
  its "war" attribute and it becomes an explosive).


Rudy, check one of your previous responses, in which you basically
agreed to the same reasoning.

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Hugo Gayosso
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