Oren Beck wrote:
SO we have the ethics of theft being not only wrong in itself- but arguably making us -the technical class, passive accomplices. For failing to make it duly rewarded as the crime it is.
And furthermore- it's an opening for the Open Source world to PROVE that we are better at real security than the closed models ever can be.
You know, not everybody agrees with the traditional paradigm of so-called "intellectual property." Some of us outright oppose the very idea of "intellectual property." And the Internet community has rapidly been moving towards our position, what with file-sharing and free/open software.
The Web is based on openness. If you don't like people hotlinking to an image on your server, put up some porn. Framing? This may be annoying, but it shows that your site has content so good that others would highlight it. I also wouldn't totally condemn framing. In some contexts, this would actually boost traffic to your website.
Chuck
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