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Re:Why Technology Favors Tyranny by mar77i on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:04AM (#17908402)
If you have concerns, please add your concerns to the license and contracts around your product.

Also, for someone who says "I don't think that's to say I shouldn't be worried about it", you sure seem to take a liberal - maybe even a bit contradicting? - stance not wanting to be too idealistic about it.

Re:Why Technology Favors Tyranny by swift532 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:07AM (#17908427)
English is not my first language, sorry, I think I didn't express myself well. I meant that we shouldn't be too naive when considering what other people might make of technology, just because we're idealistic.
Re:Why Technology Favors Tyranny by mar77i on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:55PM (#17911226)
But we're still idealistic because at the end of the day, we're not only responsible of what we do with technology ourselves, but when we create things we're always enabling others to use them; be it by giving them away freely, and maybe a bit more critically when selling.

There was a case once where a software project amended the GNU GPL with a no military use clause... On that note, you can never tell exactly who your customers are, and you shouldn't fit technology with a built-in kill switch or have it call home, which is just the worst of all options, as seen with several unpopular videogame companies.