Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:30 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: >> Chris Cannam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > An irony of both open source and free software is that they make it >> > easy to forget that all software is almost always written by decent >> > humans -- for example, by implying that proprietary software >> > developers are less moral and so less significant. If my free >> > software work puts a company or its developers out of work, then >> > that's a problem for my conscience. It's not a victory for free >> > software. And it's not "just business", because it's not business. >> > I will have damaged people's livelihoods, for fun. >> >> That particular argument does not hold water at all, sorry. >> Following your kind of logic, people caring for peace on Earth are >> damaging the livelihoods of weapon producers, decent people mostly, >> and that merely for their selfish desire of a world worth living >> in. > > No, this is a bunch of BS. You're equating software producers with > weapon producers,
Wrong. What about "following your kind of logic" don't you understand? I am showing that _your_ kind of argument applies equally well to both. If you find this offensive, then this just shows that your argument does not hold water: because it works just the same on the different example. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
