News.com has a nice little Piece on Stanford Law School professor and technology pundit Lawrence Lessig\’s keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
\”Employees at Smith & Wesson don\’t worry if guns kill police officers,\” Lessig said. \”Some uses are illegal and some are not. But if you wrote code that could be used for good or bad, you\’re arrested and sent to jail…There\’s something screwed up about that.\”
My analogy is this:
My car goes about 100, which is totally illegal, and yet I bought this car, and it\’s legal, and I can make it go 100mph if I\’m so inclined.
Imagine if they passed a law that made it illegal for just Ford to sell cars that went over the speed limit.
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