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Dmitry Bogatov (Debian Package and TOR Exit Node Maintainer) in Custody

posted by on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the only-the-NSA-maintains-TOR-exit-nodes dept.

Soylentbob writes:

First things first: The Missing Link!

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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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:35PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:35PM (#496478)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:06PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:06PM (#496600) Journal

    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

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:23AM (#496640) Journal

    And they also get the cold hand later on.. Non grata.