On 13/12/2007, Richard Stallman  wrote:

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>     Do you believe that The Pirate Bay is guilty of copyright infringement?

>

> That is a legal question, not an ethical question.  I do not know what

> the law of any given country would say about the Pirate Bay.  You

> would need to ask a lawyer.

>

> Instead of that legal question, we could ask an ethical question: is

> The Pirate Bay's activity right or wrong?

>

> In general, I think people have a moral right to share copies of

> published works, so I see no reason to criticize the Pirate Bay in

> general.  However, I would not recommend that as a place to look for

> software, both because some of the software might be non-free, and for

> security reasons.

>

> If OpenBSD could spin off the ports system (perhaps people could put

> it on the Pirate Bay), and break off connection with it, then it would

> cease to convey any message from OpenBSD to the users.  Then I could

> recommend OpenBSD while not recommending its ports system.  Currently,

> that option does not exist.

That option does exist. Ports tree is not installed by default. Users

are not required to install the ports tree. When installing software,

the ports tree is viewed as a last resort by both users and developers

of OpenBSD. So if you refer someone to use OpenBSD, and tell them not

to use the ports tree, they'll do just fine without using it.
C.