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Tentacles of Evil

Tentacles of Evil

Posted Nov 9, 2010 21:03 UTC (Tue) by boog (subscriber, #30882)
In reply to: xemacs, yeh by dlang
Parent article: LPC: Michael Meeks on LibreOffice and code ownership

This argument has long been formalised by Debian as the "Tentacles of Evil Test", which seems quite relevant and foresighted these days.

http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html (see Q9c)

(As others have noted, the case of the FSF is more subtle; I'm not trying to imply they fail the test.)


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