[SLL] Fedora project lead seems to have played role in installing malware for FBI

[Rob Sherwood]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Brian Lane <bcl at brianlane.com> wrote:
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> On 4/20/09 1:40 PM, Phil Mocek wrote:
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>>> As of press time (2AM on Saturday morning), Paul Frields had yet to
>>> respond to queries submitted via email or twitter. If he does respond
>>> at a later date, this blog post will be updated to reflect his
>>> comment.
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>> I think this is a valid concern.

More to the point, if everyone who had "worked for the government"
(for all of the various things that implies) was shamed/banned from
doing any open source work, IMHO, a huge fraction of the movement's
best people would be lost.  Take the entire SElinux project as an
example.

This article is pure FUD, IMHO.

- Rob
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