Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 08:00 +0000, doug demaio wrote:
People who write open-source software have no say over how it is used. There are many positive ways Tornado Cash was used, which you can hear about, but I'll just share one. The license of the openSUSE Project says otherwise
I see your point, but that's assuming people take that code or software and act in good faith. What happened here wasn't that. It was someone making a privacy protocol and someone didn't act in good faith, so the powers that be chose to penalized the use because of the bad actors involvement, outlaw the use of that code and vilify the developer who made it. It would be like some bad actor using flatpaks to create something not acceptable and now all the sudden some of us can't interact with flatpaks because the powers that be find it too dangerous. Then they make the developer of it an outlaw. This is basically what happened.
It's harder for me to share sympathy or support for the cause of this thread when such fundemental errors are cited as quote.
Perhaps you just needed more context. This type of event should be concerning and it has my attention.