On 3-Jan-08, at 8:48 PM, Ioan Nemes wrote:
>> Ask yourself this question.  Do you really believe that someone who

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>> 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