http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/pluto/3676
Dec 10th 2007:
Since my cessation of PHProxy activities back in September, I've received
many emails of disappointment and sadness towards my decision. What I have
to make clear here is that this decision was personal and no government
has ever contacted me about PHProxy. I'm not Iranian, don't even live in
Iran and have never been there. I live in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai
ring a bell?).
The reason for stopping development was my feeling that the web proxy
business was an inherently immoral one. Its main goal is circumventing
censorship which was imposed by a legitimate authority of sorts, and
disobeying this authority was therefore illegal, and by extension, immoral.
Another issue was pornography. The vast majority of web proxy users use it
to browse pornography (go take a look at your log files if you run a
proxy). This is another personally immoral thing to be involved in no
matter what my intention is with regards to circumventing censorship. You
can lie to yourself and say that it's for freedom of information, that
there are legitimate uses for web proxies (which there indeed are), but
the bad outweighs the good as evident, and as such it is immoral.
Everyone has their own gauge by which they defines what's good and what's
bad. And this gauge is calibrated by many factors such as religion,
culture, society, and circumstances. You may disagree with my decision,
but I believe it was the right thing to do.
Some have contacted me with requests of "officially" taking over the
PHProxy project. Some have requested to take over the SourceForge page,
some requesting to buy whiteFyre (no). I officially support none. Feel
free to make your own fork, there's nothing stopping you, but there's no
"official" PHProxy anymore if that's possible to say.
As of September 7th 2007, I, Abdullah Arif (eugee, ultimategamer00, uG, et
cetera), completely renounce and disavow the PHProxy (poxy) project and
all past and future works and derivatives based on the PHProxy script. I
will no longer continue development nor support for this script. I
relinquish all rights and disclaim all responsibilities associated. This
decision is final. Thanks to everyone for their support.
{اللهم أنت ربي لا إله إلا أنت خلقتني وأنا عبدك وأنا على عهدك ووعدك ما
استطعت أعوذ بك من شر ما صنعت أبوء لك بنعمتك علي وأبوء لك بذنبي فاغفر لي
فإنه لا يغفر الذنوب إلا أنت }
自从9月初停止PHProxy的开发活动,我已经收到了许多由于我的决定而失望和伤心的邮
件.我必须要解释的是这个决定是我个人的,没有政府部门与我有过任何有关PHProxy的
联系.我不是伊朗人,没在伊朗住过也从没去过那儿.我住在阿拉伯联合酋长国(迪拜
〔阿拉伯联合酋长国港市〕ring a bell?).
停止开发的原因是我感觉到网页代理本质上是不道德的.它主要的目的是围绕合法权
威施加影响的检查制度,从更大范围和本质看,违抗这样的检查是非法的.
另一个原因是色情.大量网页代理的使用者中主要是用来浏览色情站点(看看你的日
志文件如果你也用了PHProxy).这是另一件我不愿牵扯进去的不道德的事情, 不管我在
绕过审查上的动机如何.你可以欺骗你自己,说那是为了信息自由,当然也有使用代理的
正当用户(他们是真正的需要代理),但是现实证据显示这样的结果坏远大于好,这是最
根本的原因.
每个人有他自己判断是非的标准.制定这个标准的因素有很多,比如宗教,文化,社
会,和其他的情况.你可以不同意我的做法,但我相信这样做是对的.
有些人已经联系我,请求是否"官方"接管了PHProxy项目.有些人请求接管在SF的站
点,有些人请求购买whiteFyre(答案是no).我谁也不支持.人人可以任意的去决定怎么
做,没什么可以拦你,但是再也不要说什么"官方的"PHProxy,如果在某种可能的情况下
要说的话.
从2007年9月7日,我, Abdullah Arif(eugee, ultimategamer00, uG, et
cetera),完全放弃和否认PHProxy项目,和所有过去和以后的基于PHProxy脚本的代
码.我不再继续开发也不再提供支持这个脚本.我放弃所有权利,不承当所有的相关的责
任.这是最后的决定.感谢所有人对我的支持.
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