RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies

Subject: RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axion -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:39:26 -0700


On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:24 -0400, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Owning your own code is the ethical equivalent of running a sweatshop?

I'm sure you're joking, but, for some people, yes.

The reasoning is that monopolies restrict access to computer resources.
Since access to computer resources is necessary for a member of an
industrialized society, restricting that access is unethical.

--
Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177
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"When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp
right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is
not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result
is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending
to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it.'
- Mark Twain


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