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Re:Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software pro... by chc on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:46PM (#22387156)
How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law (particularly given all the random jurisdictions your contributors might be in), and thus "You should not use services that can rat on you and your friends to the cops" seems like a fair value to hold in the context of FOSS development?
Re:Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software pro... by franga2000 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:09AM (#22389951)
Creating FOSS does not get you in trouble with the law. Creating things that are against the law gets you in trouble with the law - FOSS or otherwise (in Zimmerman's case, even if PGP were proprietary, publishing it internationally was illegal). I have a hard time seeing why a FOSS project* would care about discord ratting them out in case of illegal activity if they weren't doing any. Unless the idea of FOSS is illegal, as your comment suggested, but that is plain false (in your example and in all jurisdictions I am even remotely familiar with).

* - except for things like Signal, Tor..., which are illegal some places, but they probably wouldn't even consider Discord in the first place

Re:Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software pro... by UncleEntity on Friday February 21, 2020 @07:18PM (#22388393)
> How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law...

Creating (or in this case distributing) anything that's against the law could get you in trouble with the law -- kind of how it works.