20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
6 p.m.
Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com>om>:
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:28 +0100, Björn Lindström
wrote:
No.
It is the of refusing others their freedom when it would have no cost
to you is what is immoral.
(I'm not counting the hypothetical cost of lost sales of copyright
licenses, which as I pointed out are an arbitrary monopoly, not a
moral right.)
In so far as moral can be applied here,
restricting people from
tinkering with the software they run is immoral, since it diminishes
their freedom.
By this logic, locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes
people's freedom to roam around my house.