average joe: "Whoa, they made SIX MILLION dollars by helping people launder money?! lock those fuckers up! Here I am working hard every day and following the law, and I make $50k a year".
vs: "Why'd those guys get thrown in jail? they weren't even involved at all and someone ELSE just used their free code? those other people should get arrested"
You're focusing on important details, but 99% of people won't do that.
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My main gripe with your angle and others who take up a similar one is, "punished just for writing code...". I wish it WERE true that they "just wrote code". more (normal-er) people would be on board with the outrage IF they "just wrote code". Next time someone gets unfairly prosecuted like this, I hope they will have "just written code".
Someone seeing the "they just wrote code" message, and then digging deeper and finding out they "also made $6M" makes whoever said "they just wrote code" seem disingenuous, not credible, and like they might be papering over other important details as well. Keep your credibility up in the eyes of onlookers by telling the whole story. It becomes easier to tell the whole story when there isn't $6M hiding in the plot.
Proton AG had $97.5 million in revenue last year.
Those criminals!
Lock them up.
i don't agree with or support any of this prosecution, i hope you realize (or any prosecution in the current non-private legal system, for that matter...)
That's fine and good to hear.
What do you think they were falsely accused of, then. If it wasn't for writing code?
all accusations are "false" because the legal system is involuntary.
but to answer your question: were they not also running and providing a service, beyond merely authoring code?
Is running and providing a service to others illegal?
by "illegal", do you mean the State will put you in jail for it? definitionally, yes, in this case.
but now we're allowing that they didn't "just write code", I notice. which was my original point.
