I also have a serious question for you. I recently listened to an interview with the Samurai wallet dev who has been sentenced to 5 years prison for writing open source software.
In the interview he talked about how his constitutional rights were not respected and how hostile the judge was.
They had no evidence of an actual crime being committed, so the charges are for “conspiracy” to commit crimes. Basically, as they were “aware” that their software could be used for illegal purposes, they’re guilty of conspiring to commit that crime.
This is pretty scary, does this mean any open source dev could be guilty of a similar crime?
With your background in FOSS and Linux, I’d like to hear what you think about this?
Here’s the interview for anyone interested. Also a V4V pod with no ads.
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