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There is a certain notion among tech people that adopting a certain piece of tech or even an idea would solve all of the world's problems. For one, L'Eunuchs people believe that if all software was "free"
software, spying on people via their computers would be impossible because of course everyone is a programmer capable of removing the tracking code from every piece of software installed. Or rather, this was the case until Goolag proved them wrong with Chromium. Chromium is open source, yet it will track you til the end of the world, and there is nothing you can do short of leading an uphill battle againt both Corporate America and the Chinese Communist Party.
Another example is the fans of P2P networking protocols, who claim that every single networking application can be replaced with a P2P counterpart, including their own mother. Consider the following scenario: I decided to unwind, turned every single one of my electronic devices off, put all of them into a Faraday cage, and fucked off into the woods for three months. Three months later I return and check my P2P Email. Where exactly were the messages I was sent stored all this time? Yeah...
Just as with programming languages, there is no Silver Bullet when it comes to designing protocols and applications. And of course just putting smart license text and requiring everyone else to do the same won't save you. Neither will CoCs, by the way.
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