Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2019-04-14

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 4/9/19 6:49 PM, Chris Reffett wrote:
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> (Picking one thread to reply to, but this applies to the discussion as a
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Same. This is a tough one.

I don't care much at all about the copyright angle. Copyright has always
been a fundamentally inconsistent concept. We all violate copyright law
millions of times a day, and there's no way to avoid that in modern
society. This campaign is simply doing what everyone else does in that
regard: pretend we give a shit, so people don't see us as heretics. The
fact that we've gotten ourselves into a logical pickle here is not
unexpected given that we're trying to play a game that doesn't make any
sense. I'll sleep fine either way.

What I do care about is that ultimately the only form of trust our users
have is based on our reputations. I'm a real person: you can search for
my name, find out where I work, who my friends are, call my girlfriend
and tell her I suck. That's *not* what's keeping me from committing a
backdoor to Gentoo. But that *is* why you trust me not to do it. I have
a few simplified-to-the-point-of-absurdity computer security rules, one
of which goes like "don't run code from anyone you can't find and punch
in the face." To that end, not having a real identity associated with a
developer account is troubling.

But, of course, I like having our pseudonymous contributors around
fixing stuff too.