Posted on 08/14/2006 7:13:01 PM PDT by nycoem
I am sure the terrorists will respect their little obscure clause. Yep, really sure.
How many armies does the Open Source Project have?
That would seem to allow anti-materiel defensive use (e.g. anti missile missile, blow up empty buildings)
Smart idiots.
Oh yeah! Well, I'll bet they'll go to a concert and buy a Tshirt to stop them.
There clause won't hold up under the Open Source GPL, on which they are basing their licensing. Their license is invalid and therefore anyone can use their software any way they see fit, now, HAHAHA!!
"Open source operating systems can steer warplanes and rockets. "
Uh yeah sure. I can imagine taking that one up the chain. Not a chance it would happen post Clinton.
Oh, I'm sure that China, Iran, and Cuba would never violate that license agreement.
Just once, it would be SO COOL to be a leftist dictator of a country, where one of these moonbats would come to me, decrying how I violated his license agreement, after agreeing not to... It would be so much fun to look into his eyes, and tell him, "Well, the reason I didn't follow your guidelines, is because I didn't want to. Now, I'm going to kill you. Bye bye!"
Mark
The Pentagon is a heavy Linux user.
This license clause is a joke.
GPL licenses should prohibit use by terrorists.
I am so much looking forwarding to observing the (attempted) enforcement of stupidities such as this. The Left SO unhinged from reality it is unbelievable.
pretty ironic considering the internet was created...drum roll.....FOR THE MILITARY!!!!!
The Federal Government needs to do a little research and see if anyone involved in writing this GPL took Federal funds in the development, and take them to court if so.
If the license is held invalid it defaults back to NO permission
If the license is invalid, the software becomes public domain. You can't defend an invalid license, even if you say you gave no permission.
These gentlemen need a re-introduction to The First Law of Stupidity.
The military gave them the interntet (and a million other things), and these granola tech weanies now suggest something so laughable. Phat chance.
Actually, this could be a back-door way to hamstring the US Miliary. So much software is written using open source now, if this becomes widespread you could have fringe legal groups going to court, trying to halt fielding or deployment of weapons based on this clause. The software might not even be in there--just the ACCUSATION that is is in there could be enough for some fool judge to issue a devastating ruling.
Think it can't happen? I'm sure people said the same thing about gay marriage not too long ago.
The militaries these idiots need to worry about
(PRC, PRK, Iran, Russia & their stooges) will not
honor the license terms.
There are already too many public license variants.
If the free & open source community starts to further
balkanize and politicize their terms, they are going
to further screw up distros (which are already wringing
their hands over the inclusion of free binary-only code).
Maybe I need to release some code that excludes
Democrats.
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