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Why is it ethical not to write a program at all (Was: referencing non-fr
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Dmitry Alexandrov |
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Why is it ethical not to write a program at all (Was: referencing non-free software) |
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Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:20:57 +0300 |
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> Also, why it's ethical not to write the program at all (giving users
> _no_ freedom to do anything)
Because proprietor is not ‘giving’ or ‘presenting’ freedoms to users, he is
*returning* it.
Naturally users do have their essential rights, it’s a copyright law that takes
them away, establishing a _monopoly_ for the benefit of an author or (which is
more likely) an author’s employer. Thus, a free software supporter would argue
that a moral duty of an ethical proprietor is to deny to accept socially
harmful privileges and return users their essential rights back.
> but unethical to write it and then not GPL it.
There are many other ethical (that is free) software licences besides GNU GPL.
Three (or four) of them are other GNU licences, by the way.
- Re: referencing non-free software, (continued)
- Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Francesco Ariis, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Francesco Ariis, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Ilya Shlyakhter, 2018/01/09
- Why is it ethical not to write a program at all (Was: referencing non-free software),
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- Re: referencing non-free software, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, J.B. Nicholson, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Dmitry Alexandrov, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, J.B. Nicholson, 2018/01/09
- Re: referencing non-free software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/01/10
- Re: referencing non-free software, Francesco Ariis, 2018/01/09