On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is ok and what is not ok ? > like lets say for example in this case and many other cases some propriety > software based companies funds Free Software Work should we accept this > money and work or say no thank you we will rather die hungry rather than > get paid for the free software work from you . > > again remember money has no color and many of us are in different stages of > there own life so this money does pay there bills and support families . > > there are more questions on the security kinds of things where in there is > a thin line between what you can or cannot or should be doing > > there are some ethics i have read like http://ccc.de/en/hackerethik > > What are your opinions about it ?
If the licenses are fine and software/work is free as in freedom then it is fine provided the work is not against the interests of the free software movement and human values. Funds can be accepted from anybody provided there are no strings attached in the context mentioned. We must always be cautious about hidden motives and ensure that valid rights are not compromised. Generally accepting advts or sponsorships without strings attached is not a big problem. Problematic areas can be "porting free software to proprietary OS", "education portals with vested interests", "Free News portal with paid agents", "Surveillance", etc. academia.edu is better than researchgate.net as far as commitment to open access is concerned. They are not well designed though. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
