[CA cert] Re: An apology and an announcement

["John A. Martin" <jam AT athene.jamux.com>]

>>>>> "Duane" == Duane 
>>>>> "Re: Re: An apology and an announcement"
>>>>>  Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:43:32 +1000

    Duane> John A. Martin wrote:
    >> Which specific criteria for Debian Free do you believe would be
    >> counter to the interests of CAcert?

    Duane> My concerns lie in the fact that if 100 CAs were to
    Duane> suddenly exist tomorrow all using similar documents and the
    Duane> same code base nobody would know who to trust and nobody
    Duane> would be able to say with any certainty which were adhering
    Duane> to the CPS' presented on their websites, and the end result
    Duane> is none of them would be trusted. So while competition can
    Duane> be healthy in some cases I can see how it could also be
    Duane> destructive as well in this particular instance.

Circa 1991-1993, when the Jolitzes were doing 386BSD and Linus was on
the MINIX newsgroup, and even later, a lot of folk became worried about
the prospect of Operating Systems produced outside of responsible
Corporations or Academic Institutions becoming widely available and
used on inexpensive hardware.

        jam

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