Hello again Crossland! On 2/5/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am proposing that this is a practical problem, not an ethical one. Please explain the ethical dimension of this.
Google is of course being unethical in their refusal to release source code. We Google users, in a sense, are supporting that. Which would be nearly very excusable except for the fact that there are better (ethically that is) alternatives which are very much usable. I'm gonna be looking out for them as of now. It shouldn't be difficult to get rid of Gmail, but I think I'll need to be excused for not finding an alternative search engine - although I would HAPPILY support any better-ethically efforts to put out a search engine to compete with Google - does anybody know of any? I've come across free search engine _software_, but usually it's not the software but an interface to an index of the web I want. If the developers release the backend code, that'd very likely put them ahead ethically, so they can count on my support even while I reluctantly use Google to find what I need and can't find off them. That's how I look at it all.. I would and do well use non-free software (at least, in the same way we all do), but very reluctantly. -- Declan Naughton _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
