OT: wget in the news

[Brian Cluff]

I think you will find that it's not that it's specifically banned, but 
that it wasn't specifically allowed, and therefore it was banned.

I can't tell you how many times I've run into people working in 
environments where their project is taking days or even months because a 
program they they could use that would automatically take care of their 
problem isn't specifically allowed, and often times their IT dept 
refuses to even look at the program in order to possible approve it.  In 
a lot of cases this means that they are spending 10s of thousands of 
dollars in man hours because they can't be bothered to audition a new 
program.

That being said, I hope there is a lot more to the courts decision than 
just simply a case of throwing the book at someone because they were 
using a non-approved piece of software.

Brian Cluff

On 08/11/2013 10:00 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Agreed, Eric.  It makes no sense whatever.  The judge should be
> reviewed.  That said, did the guy download wget knowing it was
> "banned"?  Why should it be banned?  maybe there is/was a reason but I
> don't know what it might be.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     bummer: I thought it was going to br a positive story.
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>     On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com
>     <mailto:eric.cope at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the-free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/
>
>         <opinion>this is insanity at its best</opinion>
>
>         Eric
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