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From: Lars Hansson <romabysen@...>
To: OpenBSD <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question
Date: Friday, January 4, 2008 - 12:42 am

On Jan 4, 2008 9:48 AM, Ioan Nemes  wrote:


Why is the software market unethical? Because there are some bad

apples? Gee, that makes pretty much every single business sector

unethical. Unless you're trying to say that selling software in itself

is unethical but that's bullshit.

Who are the ethical software crafters? Does simply not charging money

for your software make you ethical?

Most OSS, for example, can be, and is, used by governments to oppress

the people. Does that make working on OSS unethical?


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Lars Hansson
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Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Jack J. Woehr, (Thu Jan 3, 12:44 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 8:08 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ioan Nemes, (Thu Jan 3, 9:48 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Lars Hansson, (Fri Jan 4, 12:42 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question , Theo de Raadt, (Fri Jan 4, 2:31 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Jan 4, 6:41 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sat Jan 5, 11:41 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sat Jan 5, 12:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Richard Stallman, (Sun Jan 6, 6:46 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Eric Furman, (Tue Jan 8, 2:16 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Siju George, (Sun Jan 6, 8:33 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Richard Stallman, (Mon Jan 7, 12:18 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Eric Furman, (Tue Jan 8, 3:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, bofh, (Wed Jan 9, 8:41 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Denis Doroshenko, (Sat Jan 12, 8:50 pm)
Way OT:Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Qu..., Eric Furman, (Thu Jan 10, 1:00 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ted Unangst, (Wed Jan 9, 9:45 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, bofh, (Wed Jan 9, 10:19 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, ropers, (Sat Jan 12, 12:26 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Siju George, (Mon Jan 7, 9:46 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Sunnz, (Mon Jan 7, 12:04 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sun Jan 6, 7:52 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, dermiste, (Fri Jan 4, 7:47 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Lars Hansson, (Sat Jan 5, 6:02 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Todd Alan Smith, (Fri Jan 4, 9:36 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, L, (Sat Jan 5, 12:14 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Todd Alan Smith, (Sat Jan 5, 2:15 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, L, (Sat Jan 5, 2:31 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Jeremy Huiskamp, (Thu Jan 3, 10:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Douglas A. Tutty, (Thu Jan 3, 10:42 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ted Unangst, (Thu Jan 3, 6:42 pm)
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