On: Saeed Malekpour, programmer and political prisoner...

[chubot]

I don't see the difference. When you open source something, you have no control over who uses it. That's the point.

I've open sourced a bunch of code. Now some enemy of the Iranian state uses it, and I go to Iran, and I am guilty by association and kidnapped and tortured?

EDIT: Deleted my earlier edit, confusing 2 people

[stavrianos → chubot]

Did you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Abedini ? Because that's someone else.

[chubot → stavrianos]

Yes, thanks for clearing that up... somebody else posted that link here and I got confused.

[th3iedkid → chubot]

>>Because he was a Christian proselytizing in Iran for many years.

Any references ?the wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Malekpour doesn't seem to mention that.

[dang → th3iedkid]

The now-deleted comment confused him with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Abedini.