Users have responsability for what they do. We do not take responsability
for them. We give them enough information to make their informed decision.In my opinion, that's the ethical way to do things.
In my opinion, we ought to take responsibility for the recommendations
and assistance we give to others. Thus, we should not steer people
towards non-free software. Even though they are not forced to follow
our advice, we are still responsible for having given it.In BSD land, we trust the human nature. We're not condescending to our
users, we treat them as adults and we let them make *their* own ethical
choice and take their own decision.You cannot claim the credit for "letting" them, because it is a fact
that they can do so in any case. It is misleading to speak of "letting"
or "stopping" the users from installing non-free software.What's really going on is that you are helping them use the non-free
software, which grants it legitimacy. That is what I object to.
| Tarkan Erimer | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
| Greg KH | [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 |
| Linus Torvalds | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
| Kohei KaiGai | [PATCH 0/3] exporting capability name/code pairs (final#2) |
git: | |
| Gerrit Renker | [PATCH 33/37] dccp: Initialisation framework for feature negotiation |
| Jarek Poplawski | Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock(). |
| Arjan van de Ven | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
| Mark Ryden | Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit -- Ottawa -- July 22, 2008 |
