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Dmitry Bogatov (maintainer for several Debian packages and a TOR exit node) was arrested in Moscow, accused of endorsing violence and mayhem. The Debian project reacted by - besides giving their moral support - revoking access rights based on his private key as a precaution, in case the key gets compromised.
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Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody
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You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.
-- Ayn Rand
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:51PM (8 children)
Never volunteer to work on free software for it is a thankless job and you will go to jail.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:35PM (2 children)
In my experience, corporations get to market quickly on the backs of FOSS, refuse to contribute back, and then take their profits to write proprietary replacements once a strong foothold has been achieved.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:06PM
Not to say that doesn't happen, but the owners of proprietary software occasionally liberate it. Netscape, Solaris and StarOffice come to mind.
Some corporations do give back by contributing to existing FOSS projects:
The top 10 companies, which employ kernel developers to contribute to the Linux kernel, make up nearly 57 percent of the total changes to the kernel.
-- https://www.linux.com/blog/top-10-developers-and-companies-contributing-linux-kernel-2015-2016 [linux.com]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:23AM
And they also get the cold hand later on.. Non grata.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:30PM (4 children)
I'll believe it when I see Lennart behind bars. I'll even get you a beer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:18PM (3 children)
Reiser is behind bars, thought he was God's Gift to Linux. Funny how that worked out for him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:08PM (2 children)
Are you fat? Apparently all that salt is likely to make you eat too much...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:40AM (1 child)
Do you know where you are? Or was that a retorical question?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:29AM
It was a joke, its up to you to cope in society with your mental issues. Everyone has something...