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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/my_doom.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/my_doom.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ddb4be6 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/my_doom.html @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<title>MyDoom and You +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/my_doom.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>MyDoom and You</h2> + +<p>by <a href="http://stallman.org/"><strong>Richard +Stallman</strong></a></p> + +<p> +I grew up in a community whose other members sometimes committed crimes as +serious as murder. The city of New York, with its 8 million +inhabitants, had hundreds of murders each year, mostly committed by +people who lived in the city. Violent assaults and robberies were +even more common.</p> +<p> +Other evils involving information rather than physical violence were +common also. For instance, some New York police regularly lied on the +witness stand, and even made up a word for it: instead of +“testifying”, they described court appearances as +“testilying”. Some New York programmers fell into the +lawful but socially destructive practice of proprietary software: they +offered other people attractive software packages without source code, +and exacted a promise not to share them with anyone else.</p> +<p> +Despite these prevalent evils, never in my life have I seen anyone try +to condemn all New Yorkers on the basis of the wrongs that only some +have committed. I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of +New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing +proprietary software. People are aware that the mere fact that some +New Yorkers were known to have done these things is no justification +for treating all of us as guilty. That would be “guilt by +association,” and people know that is unjust.</p> +<p> +I now live in the +smaller city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Murder and robbery occur +here, too; I do not know if Cambridge police regularly lie in court, +but proprietary software is rife. Nonetheless, I have never seen +anyone try to condemn the whole city of Cambridge for this. Here, too, +people recognize that guilt by association is an injustice.</p> +<p> +However, people don't always remember to apply the principle. My +virtual community, the free software community which I have helped to +build since 1984 by developing the GNU operating system, is +now the victim of a campaign of guilt by association. A number of +articles—I have seen some—have tried to hold our entire +community guilty for the development of the MyDoom virus.</p> +<p> +We can be pretty sure that some New Yorkers have committed murder, +because they have been tried and convicted for it. We do not know +whether anyone in the free software community participated in the +development of MyDoom. The developers have not been identified; they +know who they are, but you and I can only speculate. We could +speculate that users of GNU/Linux developed the virus to attack SCO. +We could speculate that Microsoft developed the virus so it would be +blamed on us. We could speculate that disgruntled former SCO +employees developed the virus to get even. But there is no evidence +for any of these speculations.</p> +<p> +If some day we find out that those who developed the virus were free +software users, then my virtual community will be in the same +situation as New York City and Cambridge: proved to have had some +members who acted destructively.</p> +<p> +This should not surprise anyone. The free software community numbers +in the tens of millions, larger than New York or even Shanghai. It is +hardly to be expected that so many people would all be ethical. Our +community is self-selected for at least partial rejection of one +unethical practice, proprietary software, but even that doesn't +guarantee perfection. The presence of a few wrongdoers among many +millions is no surprise—and no excuse for guilt by +association.</p> +<p> +I am confident that nearly all readers of this article have nothing to +do with developing the MyDoom virus. So if someone is accusing you, +don't act defensive. You have no more to do with the virus than +your accuser, so stand tall and say so.</p> +<p> +If anyone has knowledge or evidence about who developed the virus, I +hope he or she will come forth and make an accusation against specific +people based on specific proof. But nobody should make accusations +without proof, and there is no excuse for guilt by association. +Not in New York, not in Cambridge, and not in the Free World.</p> +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a +href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a +href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. 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