At 01:45 PM 7/30/02, you wrote: >I suggested: >> > Ethics is a rather personal thing. You'll want to define membership >> >criteria for a SIG, and totally avoid the phrase 'ethics'. > > >On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Mark Lane wrote: > >>Why would we want this? All professional organizations from Medical Board >>to Engineering Associations have ethical standards by which their members >>are required to adhere. > > > The Linux / Open Source / Free Software community is considerably more > diverse than these groups, IMNSHO. There would be much more agreement on > what is 'ethical' and what is not, and thus not a huge amount of time > spent debating this.
We don't have to get much into licensing ethics. As long as the license is not broken that as far as we would need to go. But we should get into some important stuff like a simple system administrator passing himself of as an Internet Security Expert. -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <--
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