Marketing Tor (Was Re: For those using Tor with windows)

Jeffrey F. Bloss jbloss at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Nov 16 15:02:38 UTC 2005


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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:54 am, Marc Abel wrote:
> A lot of people, such as myself and some of the legendary writings of
> one Richard Stallman, respectfully disagree.
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:24, Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> > ... I believe it's ethically abhorrent to use free software for profit
> > like this....

It's not so much a matter of using the software for profit as it is using the 
resources donated by what amounts to a collection of "hobbyists" for profit. 
It's my understanding there's no private network involved. In fact the 
service is marketed as "additional anonymity of THE Tor network" (emphasis 
mine).

Call me anal retentive if you like, but I see tapping into the existing Tor 
network for profit as ethically abhorrent.

- -- 
Hand crafted on November 16, 2005 at 09:56:52 -0500

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Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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