How is this even possible? Talking about installing a program on a computer has gone to talking about german resistance in WWII? In a few years are we going to read the diary of a young girl who lived with her family in the hidden basement of someone's home running vista home inside WINE in fear of the SSMS?
It's a program...that you paid for...on a computer in your own house. This isn't a discussion about the nature of true evil. I bought some toys for my young son the other day, the 'EULA' said not for children under 3. He's just turned 2...should I fear the Hasbro secret police? Mike On 6/1/07, Constance Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't know how much I would like to agree totally with this posting. I've read a lot about the Widerstand--the German resistance to Hitler--and how they stood up to evil, banal and otherwise, and the price they paid. But the problem I have with the "banality of evil" argument (with respect to EULA's and similar practices) is that many of us have few choices about software with unpalatable EULAs or other distressing features. It's wonderful to avoid dealing with companies that have dodgy ethics practices; indeed, there are things I won't buy because of country of manufacture, means of manufacture, or the company that made the object.
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