I'm sorry, but I can't make sense of this argument - it would surely follow from this that anyone who creates a general purpose tool (such as perl, created by Larry) is morally culpable since they could and should have anticipated that someone would at some point in the future use the tool for bad purposes, and should therefore not have released it in the first place (or only, under strict licensing conditions, to carefully vetted individuals).

The same argument would apply to anyone writing a book to teach people how to program.

Except in the case of a signed contract explicitly removing the right, I don't see how anyone giving out correct information can be legally culpable. Whether they are morally culpable of course depends on your ethics, but most ethical systems would hold truth to be a high trump card.

Hugo

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