At Mon, 01 May 2006 09:58:19 -0400, "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My expected outcome was that the ethical issue has nothing to do with > whether the artifact is digital. It entirely has to do with the marginal > cost of reproduction (to the initial holder) being zero, and the belief > that creating artificial scarcity is fundamentally unethical. > > I am still not 100% certain, but I think that this is actually where > Marcus and I ended up.
Sounds about right, however, there is an extra dimension, which I pointed out and you omitted above. There must be a public interest in the artifact. Otherwise, it would be impossible to be consistent with the above and defend some amount of privacy, too. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
