How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software | Crypto Craft

  • How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software

    From techcrunch.com

    A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could jeopardize the future of open source software development. That’s according to the Jack Dorsey-backed Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, which is taking on a case to defend 11 Bitcoin developers named in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who emerged into the spotlight back in 2016 with a hotly disputed claim of being Bitcoin’s founding father. The crux of the case in question dates back to 2021 when Wright, through a Seychelles-based firm called Tulip Trading, launched a so-called ... (full story)

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Goat
Apr 28, 2023 11:12pm
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“The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund fights not just for Bitcoin but for the right of open-source developers to create and freely share their code with the world for the greater good,” Morcos said in a separate statement. “The Tulip Trading case threatens not only the MIT License but also the very notion of freedom of speech. Our collective mission is to safeguard innovation by shielding developers from legal intimidation.”
We got another freedom-of-speech fighter!!!
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Goat
Apr 28, 2023 11:09pm
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Hahaa YESSSs!!!! Let's rumble baby!!!!!
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