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

[Aaron Bauman]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:58:39PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 4/9/19 6:49 PM, Chris Reffett wrote:
> >
> > (Picking one thread to reply to, but this applies to the discussion as a
> > whole)
> >
>
> 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.
>
>

We all violate laws everyday too, but that doesn't mean the cop won't
stop you for speeding and then do the same when he is off duty.

It is a crazy world we live in.

-- 
Cheers,
Aaron