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RE: A Question of Ethics (was: Overriding Acrobat User Settings)
Subject:RE: A Question of Ethics (was: Overriding Acrobat User Settings) From:"Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:29:46 +1000
> Everything is hackable.
Even DNA.
> Free speech does not mean you can steal somebody's or some corporation's
hard work and blab it to the world.
The gent was saying that Adobe's PDF security is woefully inadequate and the
asking price far too high for what you get. Adobe may not like it, but they
have no right to shut him up.
> The open source movement has the same problem that communism has - its a
nice idea that JUST DOES NOT WORK. Both forget one fundamental law of
economics: there is no such thing as a free lunch.
There are several business models for making money out of open-source
projects.
Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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