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incredible self-own from ArduPilot co-creator Jason Short:
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(of course, in reality, many people were discussing weaponization even on the day diydrones was announced...)
I mean, that's a pretty believable claim. Most open source developers don't even think their project will be noticed by a lot of people, let alone be used for military purposes. At worst you can accuse him of being ignorant of the realities of how his software will be used but I honestly don't think he was outright lying and secretly wanted his software to be used in weapons or something.
He was designing software for hobbyists and later for the consumer market, he is not Oppenheimer.
I think assuming that militaries would design/use specific software and not use software for hobbyist was a reasonable assumption.