[IAEP] etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Am 24.06.2008 um 23:12 schrieb Frank Ch. Eigler:
>
>> The gist of the argument is that one can't currently know what's
>> really inside an etoys image, except beyond what it itself tells us,
>
> This is indeed a valid concern. As I wrote before, an external tool
> could be written to examine what exactly is in the image.
>
>> and cannot even be rebuilt from the sources it claims to contain.
>
>
> "even be rebuilt from the sources" ... why would you want to do that?
> It could be done, as well as you could tear down the Empire State
> building and rebuild it from scratch, but why?

leaving aside all the opensource arguments and just looking at it from a 
purely pragmatic point of view:

becouse paranoid people want to be able to verify that what's in the blob 
is really what it claims to be.

and we need to support these paranoid people becouse there are people who 
really are out to get us, and the small number of paranoid people protect 
us all.

David Lang