Verily I say unto thee, that Naheem Zaffar spake thusly:
> It's hard to convict a criminal who has not yet committed the
crime
>
totally off-topic, but if no crime has been committed, the person is
not a criminal.
To elucidate my analogy:
This particular criminal has "form", they've already been convicted, at
least twice, on two continents. Any FBI profiler would describe this as
a high risk scenario, providing sufficient due cause to take steps that
would usually be a violation of that individual's civil rights, by e.g.
invoking the Patriot Act.
But stepping back from the analogy, I don't literally mean "conviction"
in this case ... I mean taking measures to protect others. Protect /us/
from a known bad element who clearly has unambiguously bad intentions.
Slightly on topic (only because I feel there should be something on
topic in this post), yes some people are uncomfortable with Mono (I
myself uninstall it as my first task after installing Fedora), but
there are some checks and balances - there is the ECMA standards
certification and more importantly there is (or was - no idea where
it is after the Novell deal.) "protection" on this item from the OIN
- something which preceded mono's inclusion into Fedora.
AFAIK the OIN do not own all the patents in mono-core. It's Microsoft's
"Intellectual Property", provided under ECMA's supposedly "RAND"
patent
terms. If this isn't the case, I'd be most relieved to be proved wrong.
--
Regards,
Keith G. Robertson-Turner