21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
12:29 p.m.
Pete Bessman <ninjadroid(a)gazuga.net> writes:
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:30 +0100, David Kastrup
wrote:
Wrong. What about "following your kind of logic" don't you
understand? I am showing that _your_ kind of argument applies equally
well to both. If you find this offensive, then this just shows that
your argument does not hold water: because it works just the same on
the different example.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Chris Cannam <cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com>
writes:
No, this is a bunch of BS. You're equating software producers with
weapon producers, An irony of both open source and free software is
that they make it
easy to forget that all software is almost always written by decent
humans -- for example, by implying that proprietary software
developers are less moral and so less significant. If my free
software work puts a company or its developers out of work, then
that's a problem for my conscience. It's not a victory for free
software. And it's not "just business", because it's not business.
I will have damaged people's livelihoods, for fun.
That particular argument does not hold water at all, sorry.
Following your kind of logic, people caring for peace on Earth are
damaging the livelihoods of weapon producers, decent people mostly,
and that merely for their selfish desire of a world worth living
in.