On 3-Jan-08, at 8:48 PM, Ioan Nemes wrote:
Ask yourself this question. Do you really believe that someone who
sells a product which was developed within the lawful frame work is
unethical?
You confusing the issue! The software market - where you sell your
product
(i.e., software) is unethical,
distorted and manipulated, and not by the ethical software
crafters! A
`win-win` case? No, I don't think
so, it smells like a Fridmanite axiom to me.
ioan
How can a software market be unethical? It's not unethical for
someone to write software and not give away the code because you have
the option of not using it. It wouldn't be unethical for Google to
hire away every OpenBSD developer and then stop them from writing any
more free code because a) we as users have no inherent right to the
code and b) even if we did, what we've already got will always be
free and c) we have no inherent right to expect the devs to keep
giving us code in the future. Nevermind that they would probably
mostly quit rather that stop releasing free code anyway. This is so
far from infringing on anyone's freedoms, I don't even understand how
the word ethics got into the discussion.
Jeremy
