El Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:34:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann ens deleità amb les següents paraules: > 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.
Right, that's why I talked about culture and knowledge (which are two words but with a common root), which are (should?) be of public interest, and that's why I also talked about IT investement on the public administration (my digression was not so away of the main theme ;)) For me, any intent of exclusive and (or?) abusive ownership on those cases (free or marginal cost of reproduction of "things" on the public interest - and the majority of these happen to be on their digital representation) is unethical (but it's clearly not immoral, as I think the society percieves it). Anyway, _I think_ we all see this (with or without agreement), so no more discussion about this should follow to maintain a good SNR (if you agree with me that it's clear, of course; I don't want to obligate nobody to stop talking). And I'm the first to break my own rule of good SNR keeping... :) Read you, Lluis PS: [offtopic] there's an interesting project from a friend (although I don't advocate for it; I think my personal life is just that, personal), called BlogMail (http://www.blogmail.cc) which tries to push free information to enhance knowledge to the limit, where the mailbox is in a Blog-form so supposedly everybody can learn from other people's experiences (the project is in spanish for now, but) -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth Listening: Lacrimosa (Der Morgen Danach (Single)) - 3. Nichts Bewegt Sich _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
