Quote from: pine on March 31, 2013, 08:49 amQuote 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.Somehow I totally missed that entire LouisCyphre thing; I wasn't even aware he existed until today when I went looking for what you're talking about. I think I started really hanging around the forums very shortly after that. I also noticed that he and I sound very similar... I mean even some of our punctuation is almost identical. And I released a program as well, and popped up about a month after that whole affair.Frankly, Pine, I'm a little surprised that you haven't mentioned any suspicions about me being the same person as him and just coming back to try again or something. Honestly I only mention it because it really does seem plausible. I mean I'm certainly not him and didn't even know he existed, but after looking him up I'm a little surprised that not a single person has even mentioned it.