Re:Double standards (Score 1)

With MySQL, the People's Army will now be able to do multiple queries on their tables of democratic activists in Olog(n) time instead of lengthy searches in card catalogs. How about building cheap firewalls so the people can't get the unbiased reporting that CNN provides? Or using Apache to publish lists of Falun Gong people to their police forces instantly?

fair enough...

but what about having better software for their nuclear plants for the safety of us all? what about medical research? or just better storage of medical information for the benefit of the billion of them? what about using free software for education? you only see evil in the application of free software by "rogue" governements...

also, all your examples could be used for the western world too. i mean email monitoring etc, god knows what technologies the secret stuff the cia uses is built on ... free software might be used for nuclear weapon research too (clustering and stuff) maybe the developers on certain projects would disagree too of the use the US government (or others) do of their work ...

just my 0.02