full-disclosure - RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

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From: yossarian at planet.nl (yossarian)
Subject: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

> You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about where the line is in
doing damage to others.

Dunno - what is damage? If by my criticism someone has hurt feelings, i say,
so what? Some people have so very very tender feelings ... - impossible NOT
to hurt them.

> My advice to you is to do some research on
> defamation and libel cases to learn about what it is considered "bad
> form" to expect free speech to protect.  To whit, the cases you cited
> do not, IMHO, fall into those that you might consider to be misconduct
> and where "freedom of speech" is not accepted as a defence.

My impression is that Theo de Raadt should have expected his funds
withdrawn, and his plea for free speech is silly. I think no foreigner can
understand the great notion of free speech. And, ah, i have studied libel
and defamation, just before i dropped out of law school. But then again, not
being a US citizen, i also studied a different law, where free speech,
libel, etc. mean something else. I am not allowed to say auschwitz never
happened, which is protected by the free speech thingie in the US, but i am
allowed to print sploit code or use KaZaa.

Yossarian