Quote from: SelfSovereignty on March 31, 2013, 08:19 amQuote from: pine on March 31, 2013, 07:35 amI think so too. Although selling the software would be impossible.You can sell FOSS that uses the GPL. You can sell Linux too. I'm not saying anyone will buy them, but you can do it.Yes, this was discussed extensively during the LouisCypher vendor software debacle.It's that some software written for use by members of this forum has to be rigorously examined for backdoors, exploits etc, so it cannot be 'open source' to a small group of people in case of conspiracy exploiting vendor ignorance. So when I say open source I am referring to the colloquial understanding of the term: free software with source available to all to view. The moment we start appointing authorities to verify software, or we only release that software to those who almost certainly can't read the code we've invented a systemic weakness.